Thread: TMO needs Captcha which sends data to google
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meego_leenooks1 is offline meego_leenooks1
2016-10-31 , 05:48
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Originally Posted by pavi View Post
What could the logged in Spammers ( who filled the captcha once to create the account and email verified) do with the search option? DDOS the system with search queries?
Exactly. When you have a lot of posts in the database the single search query makes some load on the system. Multiply it by hundreds of spambots doing dozens of search requests per second and your forum is dead.

Originally Posted by pavi View Post
  1. 1. Please replace google recaptcha with something non-google. There are many opensource libraries out there which can provide captcha without relying on google servers/services. ( we live in post 2013 era )
Back in 2008 I was fighting with multitudes of spambots registering on my forum evading the captcha. Then with the little help of the almighty google I found out that the text question (e.g. "Write the name of this website: ") is much better than the picture captcha.
After adding it I could confirm that it really is.

Originally Posted by chilango View Post
In the last days i was reporting various spam on TMO.
Always it comes from new member with one message.
It seems that they found a way to pass the captcha
There are numerous services allowing you to bypass the captcha with the help of Russian or Indian students, e.g. http://antigate.com/
 

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