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erronis

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1. Good for you. I know of quite a few bots/spiders that will execute JS but it is more expensive for them.

Reply to William Seger (Original post)

Sun May 25, 2025, 06:08 PM

May 25

Another simple trick is to make your own "captcha" with images of numbers that need to be added and the result entered. Again, not impossible for bots but it makes it more difficult. Back in the old days (4-5 years ago?) teams of very low wage people were used to solve these types of problems.

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If AI bots are spamming your site's contact form, I found a solution that doesn't use captcha [View all] William Seger May 25 OP

Good for you. I know of quite a few bots/spiders that will execute JS but it is more expensive for them. erronis May 25 #1

Good for you. usonian May 25 #2

Good for you for adding these links, usonian. highplainsdem May 25 #3

I don't want to block web crawlers; I just don't want them spamming me William Seger May 27 #4