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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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Comparative statistic of spam activity on 4 popular CMS
We have briefly analysed spam activity on 4 CMS powered platforms with CleanTalk service and got the following results: First place — WordPress, 99.46% of spam messages, 88 thousand queries in selection. Second place — DataLife Engine, 91.12% of spam queries (registrations + messages), 3 thousand queries in selection. Third place — phpBB3, 86.98% of spam queries (registrations +…
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Updated anti-spam phpBB MOD
Improvements in the new version of the anti-spam module for phpBB: A new user account will be sent to the manual activation of the forum administration with an alert by email, If no server availability automatic moderation, or suspend access to the service. Optimized PHP code in the base class and hook. Deleted spam protection in…
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Updated IP.Board anti-spam hook to version 1.1.2
Anti-spam hook for Invision Power Board (IP.Board) updated to version 1.1.2, change log: Enhanced JavaScript test on the client. Removed unnecessary error screens. Improved diagnostics server errors – as they arise forum administrator will receive an email with a description of the error and request number CleanTalk. XML file with hook here cleantalk-ipboard-1.1.2.xml Traditionally we remind hook…
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CleanTalk Company expanded its spam protection services for websites. A CMS protection app vBulletin was issued
CleanTalk Company finished the development of an application for vBulletin which allows protection to a forum from spam. This application allows protection from automatically distributed spam, as well as from spam bots registrations. As an extra service, users can take advantage of additional functions, they can block messages with the help of stop-words or compile…