[kwlug-disc] OT: wordpress.com email follower spam

[CrankyOldBugger]

This is one of the reasons that I'm moving my WordPress based sites over to
straight HTML...  WP is just such a hacker/spam/bot target these days.

On 13 April 2018 at 12:37, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> > It depends on whether solving a captcha is cheap or expensive. In my
> > experience the Drupal captchas were cheap to solve and can be solved
> > via automated means (but this was a few years ago). Weirdly the ASCII
> > captcha did a better job of keeping people out than the other ones.
>
> I can't speak for Wordpress.
>
> But for Drupal, I abandoned all captcha solutions.
>
> The one that works for me is the 'antibot' modules. It uses Javascript, and
> will filter all automated bots.
>
> It will not stop an actual human though, but on my web sites, these are
> not frequent and are not an issue so far.
>
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