matek Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 12/19/2023 at 12:58 AM, Cannon said: We do, but they recommended that I switch from reCaptcha to hCaptcha and that change is made! As an additional (and easy to implement) safeguard would be honeypot-fields. These are hidden fields during the registration that are invisible to actual human users but bots will see it and fill it in. Not 100% effective, but tend to work well (especially if using together with for example recaptcha as you do). Example here. Another option would be checking for username patterns post-registering using regular expressions. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Carney Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 12 hours ago, matek said: As an additional (and easy to implement) safeguard would be honeypot-fields. These are hidden fields during the registration that are invisible to actual human users but bots will see it and fill it in. Not 100% effective, but tend to work well (especially if using together with for example recaptcha as you do). Example here. Another option would be checking for username patterns post-registering using regular expressions. That's a pretty clever trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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