• I registered an ActiveLayer account, installed the WordPress plugin, and generated an API key less than 24 hours ago. We have it integrated with Elementor Forms, WooCommerce (registration), and WP Comments. So far, we have 7 submissions, 3 detected as spam, the remaining marked as clean. There appear to be no false positives or misses at this point. Assuming this trend continues and it allows us to not pay too much attention to submissions, it’s a win for us. The plugin interface as well as the app.activelayer.com dashboard are thoughtfully designed, for clean, intuitive navigation.
    I dinged my rating one star for these reasons:
    • On the home page, it states, “Full Transparency – Every verdict includes a confidence score, detection signals, and detection ID. You always know why something was flagged.” For the 3 submissions so far detected as spam, in the plugin, I can click into / view specific submissions to see detection id, verdict, and score. In the ActiveLayer dashboard, in analytics I can see detection id, verdict, and visual score indicator (somewhat progress bar style) at a glance. Nowhere do I see “detection signals” – explanation for how the verdict and score was determined.
    • For the 3 submissions identified as spam, the only differences I see between the submissions are the detection id and score. All other data for the 3 submissions, including date and time, are exactly the same. This suggests to me that there were likely multiple API calls for one overall event, and each call/submission counts as a “check”. It seems that “check” quotas will very likely be met/exceeded more quickly than is obvious. The initial 1,000 free checks or the Pro plan with 5,000 checks/month, will likely not go as far as one could expect.

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