BTW, MailChimp uses reCAPTCHA on the double opt-in confirmation page, i.e., it is not always sufficient to click the confirmation link in the double opt-in mail but (some) subscribers also have to solve a reCAPTCHA on an additional confirmation page. That seems to work pretty well!
Hi,
As we stated in that post, this is by design. We’ll consider adding the functionality in the next version of MailPoet, but for now, your best option is WangGuard or Goodbye Captcha.
Hi,
I’ve had lots of troubles when suddenly I’ve received hundreds of emails from my MailPoet plugin “please confirm your email address … “
The bots were trying to sign up for the newsletter again and again with my own email address.
WangGuard did not stop any of them.
The only plugin that was able to properly handle this was Goodbye Captcha – https://wordpress.org/plugins/goodbye-captcha
They have an excellent reporting system so… I’ve seen in the reports that my own email address was used for sign up.
It works fantastic and… for 5 bucks… it is totally worth it.
On the other hand, a captcha solution is not suitable at all for subscription forms and WPBruiser(Goodbye Captcha) integrates with lots of plugins for free so… instead of reinventing the wheel why don’t you contact them and probably you guys will sort it out to have this integration free for everybody. By adding a captcha on our forms the conversion rate will drastically drop.
Freddy
@mailpoet: Bot-friendliness by design is a really strange decision, so be honest!
Anyway, what’s the hook for third-party CAPTCHA integration into MailPoet?
There are no hooks, but you can design your own subscription form and integrate a captcha if you want: https://support.mailpoet.com/knowledgebase/plugin-form-integrate/
Has anyone created its own MailPoet subscription form with Google reCAPTCHA?
