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Re: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA

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As if that's not a complete privacy nightmare. I'm sure either the NSA, or an ad-tech agency would love to get a firehose feed of this sort of data, while providing you with a YES-SPAM/NO-SPAM service. Also, anyone who mentions can be, of course, blackholed as spam. ;)

As long as it's a public forum, I don't see the issue. It's going to be public anyway, and they could easily scrape it if they want to. The submission itself should be done by the site, so the user remains anonymous.

There's a lot of information that can improve spam classification, that is not publicly queryable.

Any spam detection engine that asks for that information will outperform ones that don't.

Re: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA

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On the plus side you've likely become fairly adept at identifying street signs, light posts, bicycles, storefronts, bridges and buses in order to access Discord, especially if you were trying to access via Tor to gain a little privacy.

Can't speak for OP, but personally I simply stopped using Discord.

Ditto. Don't forget to close your account as it will not self-destruct.

Re: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA

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"Many developers vastly over-estimate the likelihood of customized spam." I run 100s of small random low traffic low priority sites. Without some form of form control, the ALL get hit with customized and random other crap spam. I don't have decent experience with many things in life, but I can say this is one topic I have YEARS of experience with. I've never over-estimated the amount of any type of spam any form can…

Have an input element that can't be seen. If it has something in it, ignore the submit. Works for all my sites so far.

Now your site is terrible for blind people.

Re: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA

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They encourage developers to include their SDK: > Monetize your mobile app or game with our SDK, without showing intrusive ads or requiring annoying subscriptions and in app purchases. https://luminati.io/sdk They approached nmap of all people: > Hi, > My name is Lior and I'd like to offer you a new way to make money off your software. The Luminati SDK provides your users the option to use your software for free by c…

$3000 USD for 100k users? If you can get five pennies from each you're better off than with this crap.

It's pretty hard to get five pennies from each of your users

Re: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA

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We did everything to avoid using CAPTCHA because spammers on our platform could defeat CAPTCHA anyway. Oftentimes, they're real, actual humans.

Hidden inputs, honeypots, etc. None of them worked long-term.

Our solution: focus on the content.

All content now runs through the following filters, and takes care of 99.9% of spam: 1) Auto-approve any and all content immediately, unless: a) The content contains any HTML (url included). If it does, send it to a moderation queue. a1) If the submitter had submitted content previously and gotten approved, auto-approve their content, even if it contains HTML.

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