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software spam solution, please advise?

We are getting a lot of spam messages being filled out from our software website, even after having captcha code, we are getting tons of spam messages a day, is there a way to stop this?


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Bobby Iliev
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October 5, 2024

Hey 👋,

One thing you could try is using more advanced captcha solutions like reCAPTCHA v3 from Google. Unlike the traditional challenge-response captcha, reCAPTCHA v3 works in the background and assigns a “spam score” to interactions, which helps filter out spammy submissions without disrupting real users:

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/

You could also consider hCaptcha, which works similarly and is privacy-focused. Both options offer more layers of protection against bots:

https://www.hcaptcha.com/

To help you better, could you let me know which CMS or framework your website is built on? This way, I can suggest specific plugins or integrations that would be best suited for your setup.

- Bobby

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