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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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Best reCAPTCHA Alternatives for WordPress in 2026
reCAPTCHAwas a brilliant idea — for its time.It kept bots busy clicking bicycles and crosswalks while real visitors went about their day. Toggle But as automation evolved, the balance shifted.Bots got faster. Humans got irritated.And WordPress admins got a new hobby: deleting fake leads and “test messages.” So if you’re tired of proving you’re not…
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Anti-Spam Without CAPTCHA: How to Protect Website Forms Without Hurting UX
Anti-Spam Without CAPTCHA: How to Protect Website Forms Without Hurting UX When spam starts flooding your contact form, the first advice you will hear is almost always the same: “just add a CAPTCHA.” It sounds reasonable. It is also, in most cases, bad advice. Table of Contents Toggle CAPTCHA does reduce some spam. But it…
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What’s New in the CleanTalk Anti-Spam Solution for phpBB: Version 5.8.1
We have updated the extension for phpBB versions 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3. The new version introduces three changes that significantly enhance your forum’s security. Here is a breakdown of what has changed and why you should install this update. Bot Detector Comes to phpBB This is the most important new feature. Bot Detector is a…
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AI Comment Spam: What AI Slop Looks Like and What to Do With It
AI comment spam looks fluent and on-topic, but it is still empty. This post is what AI slop looks like on a website, how we treat empty comments, and a short survey. We will publish the results in a separate post.