I used to use a script to combat uncustomized spam. A hidden input would get populated with my birthday in hex and then checked on the server. Every JS based client would be able to use the forms and we went back to math captcha for noscript.
Literally thousands of spam comments per day would stop instantly on deployment. We put this on over 400 sites and never had an issue of customized spam.
Definitely agree with recaptcha not being necessary. However, it's probably needed for popular sites which you're more likely to use. Do we see more recaptcha because of that?
Literally thousands of spam comments per day would stop instantly on deployment. We put this on over 400 sites and never had an issue of customized spam.
Definitely agree with recaptcha not being necessary. However, it's probably needed for popular sites which you're more likely to use. Do we see more recaptcha because of that?