One such graphic includes the code M19P17nH and the prompt 'Please enter the code at left'. It works by taking advantage of the e-mail ALIAS capabilities of most html form handling scripts (I use ), along with a graphic submission 'code', which is easily created in the most simple of graphics programs. I went from close to 100 spams per day on one of my sites' html forms to zero for the last 5 years once I implemented this approach. I have a simple approach to stopping spammers which is 100% effective, at least in my experience, and avoids the use of reCAPTCHA and similar approaches. įor accessibility reasons, you have to put a correct textual alternative, but I think that a long sentence is better for screenreaders users than being considered as a bot.Īdditional note: those examples illustrate that understanding english (or any language), and having to make a simple choice, is harder for a spambot than : waiting 10 seconds, handling CSS or javascript, knowing that a field is hidden, emulating mouse move or emulating keyboard typing. Of course you can play with two image input buttons, changing the order after each load, the text alternatives, the content of the images (and their size) or the name of the buttons which will require some server work. If you wan't an user friendly solution, just give them a beautiful 'i am a spammer' submit button: If that used to be true, it is no longer true. they won't wait a given time before submitting.they won't see that a field is visually hidden,.

you can track mouse events to detect bot,.

With the emergence of headless browsers (like phantomjs) which can emulate anything, you can't suppose that : $('input').val('goodValueEqualsGoodClient') Īlso, captchas are great, and really the best defense against spam. When a user submits the form, the secretField's value is changed This isn't a full solution, and can lead to many problems (eg, users w/o javascript, on mobile devices, etc), but it can be part of your attack plan. You can combat many of them by using some javascript to manipulate the form request before its sent (ie, setting an additional field based on some client variable). Many of those spam-bots are just server-side scripts that prowl the web. after (!) the 'bot-bait' input for the actual user Email address.ĭeveloper.Mozilla - Turning off form autocompletition

Bots like ( really like) saucy input elements like:.

Var serializedData = $(this).serialize() Name : 'Message', // Needed for serializationĮvent.preventDefault() // Prevent Default Form Submission Name : 'Email', // Needed for serialization

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