Spam is slowly getting worse and worse with recaptcha enabled

  • Resolved Tracedef

    (@tracedef)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    For the past 2 or 3 years, I’ve been using FF on about 25 sites and have gradually seen a steady uptick in spam while using recaptcha. Lots of obvious spam with tons of links, russian spam, etc. and it’s getting worse over time.

    Is recaptcha getting worse at detecting spam? Is it possible recaptcha is getting bypassed? Anyone else noticing similar issues?

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  • Plugin Author Steph Wells

    (@sswells)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry for the trouble! We are actually working on a new way to protect from spam in the next release. Unfortunately, the most commonly used spam protection options are also the most targeted for spammers to find ways around them. Also, human spammers are very difficult to stop.

    Personally, I really like the Akismet integration with Formidable. The comment blacklist is helpful too. You can add any common characters or words in there too to stop the human spammers too.

    But we are also working on improving this out of the box.

    Thread Starter Tracedef

    (@tracedef)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the response. We too have akismet enabled but still see the ongoing creep of more and more spam.

    Also just had a new first in russian spam today, they somehow were able to include an image in the message body as shown in this screenshot: https://imgur.com/9jsdymP

    Plugin Author Steph Wells

    (@sswells)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    @tracedef thanks for the update. Technically, HTML is allowed, but anything suspicious is removed. So the image isn’t anything alarming.

    We’ll work on the new spam protection. Thanks for your patience!

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