How to check if reCaptcha failed or not?

  • joec002

    (@joec002)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    We moved over to reCaptcha because bots were finding ways to detect honeypot fields. It always allows me to send, but my boss finds it works for him about 20% of the time, sometimes just spamming the form enough time goes from “Please try again later” to successfully sending the message.

    Is there a way we can check if he is simply failing the reCaptcha or another issue is happening?

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  • Erik

    (@codekraft)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    hi @joec002
    you can install flamingo and get information about the spam-score.

    in addition you can change the threshold, if you need

    But anyway i want to advice you that honeypots are a excellent method to detect bots, if the most used honeypot is not effective (because it can be detected by bots, it has a flaw or simply because is the most used and the most targeted) but this doesn’t mean that all honeypots are ineffective!

    On the other hand, I have added “honeyforms” to my new plugin and they are actually very effective. A “trap” form will be placed at the beginning of the content (and not trap fields like honeypots) if a bot sends this email it will be banned. It’s actually something like a zeroday trap for bots (because afaik i’m the first to use this method), so I get a very high detection rate with that!

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