Is reCaptcha useful? How to prevent spam users from creating account?

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Is reCaptcha useful? How to prevent spam users from creating account?

Post by shenkwen » Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:06 pm

I've enabled reCaptcha on my user creation page. However, every day there are still scores of newly created malicious uses. I don't think all of them registered manually. So how come the reCaptcha can't prevent them? Is there any better way to do this?

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Re: Is reCaptcha useful? How to prevent spam users from creating account?

Post by sozzled » Thu Sep 23, 2021 7:23 pm

This question has been discussed to death on this forum:
I can add a few hundred more, if you're interested. :laugh:

Please look at the above list. There are some useful tips in there (and some not-useful ones as well). Enjoy! 8)


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