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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit
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Validation of Email Addresses for Protection Against Spam Bots on the Website
E-mail is still one of the most important and effective elements of online business and marketing and is the most effective channel for generating revenue. Therefore, for any online business and website owners, it is important to be sure that the email owner used it for registration/subscription so that the user used his real email…
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IPv6 Support in CleanTalk Security for WordPress
Recently we wrote that we made IPv6 support in the anti-spam plugin. But not only spammers began to use IPv6, for other types of attacks on sites, attackers also use them. We implemented support for IPv6 in the security plugin for WordPress Updated methods of IP addresses determination, storage and transfer of information to the…
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CleanTalk GDPR Compliance on Apr 29, 2018
This document provides information about the law and our plans for implementing the GDPR’s important principles for CleanTalk’s services. All clients of the service represent controllers of any personal data that are being transferred to CleanTalk to offer proper functioning service. A Data Controller defines aims and means of personal data processing, while a Data…
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Expanding the possibilities of CleanTalk Anti-Spam
Checking existing Joomla users for spam Spambot messages (comments) are often disguised as ordinary user messages, but contain sponsored links or text. The main tasks of such messages are the user’s transition to a malicious resource, advertising or links to enhance the positions of their site. This compromises the site and can spoil the reputation;…
