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Self-Hosted Anti-Spam in 2026: Why Proof-of-Work CAPTCHAs Are Not Enough and What On-Prem Protection Needs
TL;DR. Self-hosted protection is having its moment: Cap has 8,013 GitHub stars after 21 months, ALTCHA’s npm packages are downloaded 1.49 million times a month, Anubis collected 23,427 stars in a year and a half. Every one of these tools runs on your server and keeps your users’ data at home. Every one of them…
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New in CleanTalk Anti-Spam: One Switch to Stop Pingback and Trackback Spam
We added a new option to the plugin: Disable pingbacks and trackbacks. It turns off two old WordPress features that spammers have been abusing for years. One checkbox, and the channel is closed. Here is what it does and why you might want it on. What pingbacks and trackbacks actually are Both are old WordPress…
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Contact Form by BestWebSoft Protection in 2026
TL;DR: To stop spam in Contact Form by BestWebSoft, combine its built-in protection with a cloud anti-spam filter. CleanTalk Anti-Spam checks every Contact Form by BestWebSoft submission in the background and blocks spam bots invisibly – no CAPTCHA, no puzzles, no checkboxes – while protecting registrations, comments and WooCommerce on the same site. reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha…
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Chaty Spam Protection for WordPress in 5 Minutes (2026)
TL;DR: To stop spam in Chaty, combine its CAPTCHA add-ons with a cloud anti-spam filter. CleanTalk Anti-Spam checks every Chaty submission in the background and blocks spam bots invisibly – no CAPTCHA, no puzzles, no checkboxes – while protecting registrations, comments and WooCommerce on the same site. reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile add a visible challenge…
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How to Stop Back In Stock Notifier Spam in WooCommerce
TL;DR: To stop spam in Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce, combine its built-in protection with a cloud anti-spam filter. CleanTalk Anti-Spam checks every Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce submission in the background and blocks spam bots invisibly – no CAPTCHA, no puzzles, no checkboxes – while protecting registrations, comments and WooCommerce on the…
