: Better Spam Protection than reCAPTCHA? I hope this is a valid question to ask here... but knows anyone a better spam protection than reCAPTCHA? We've now using reCAPTCHA for some time but got

@Phylliss660

I'm suggesting you cloudflare services, see www.cloudflare.com/features-security
I have the CloudFlare Free plan and it suit my needs perfectly, Fast DNS (geo), Caching and Threats blocking.

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@Vandalay111

Depending on your environment you could use Akismet too. It was created to fight blog comment spam.

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@Gonzalez347

One alternative to CAPTCHA and less intrusive with better UX is the honeypot method. It's rather simple: you create an input field in the HTML that you hide with javascript. You then check on the server side whether it was filled in or not, if left empty the visitor is human, if filled in a bot.

The reason it works is because javascript is still too computationally expensive for spambots to use (spam is about quantity not quality) so they don't bother parsing it. Originally CSS was suggested to hide the field, however many spambots do parse CSS to detect hidden elements on a page as it's not that expensive.

A friend of mine who told me about the method reported so far a 100% success rate in protecting his sign-up forms using this little neat trick.

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@Cofer257

Another alternative - mollom.com/
Quoted from their site:

Mollom actively protects 51,278 sites from spam currently. Mollom is very accurate, only 5 in 10,000 spam posts were not caught.

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