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13.10.2021
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Drupal 7 Recaptcha V2 / V3 still being bypassed by bots? Easy solution.

In the last months I am being pretty much bombarded by my clients with asking what happened to their sites. That the spam protection is not working anymore, where webforms / forms in general are being massively bypassed by bots. It all depends on the number of visitors for each site so sometimes people receive a lot of spam daily / weekly and sometimes only one or two mails in a month.

So I was wondering why this is. I used Recaptcha V2 or Recaptcha V3 from Google but both of them are being bypassed in a similar fashion. Even worse, somehow Recaptcha V3 is broken and not working properly on some sites, leading to revert to Recaptcha V2.

So what is the solution?

Pridal/a lubo dňa St, 10/13/2021 - 04:41
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Install Honeypot module

Do not use Recaptcha V3 since it has a lot of bugs and a full issue queue with people having trouble with a module, but instead stick to Recaptcha V2 and install Honeypot as well.

Done! Conclusion?

Having those two modules together works flawlessly and all the spam is gone again. No more russian bots with shady products, no more shady bitly links etc.

Hope it helps someone else as well :)

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