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juzles
7y

So I've been working on this website now for a while and I'm finally near the end.

The client suddenly writes to me to ask me why there is captcha on some of the forms (register, post). He asks me to remove all captchas.

I explained to him why captchas are important and I even told him one old story of mine (basically I was noob and made that fatal mistake and suffered).

His response is to remove them anyway he didn't like them.

My response?
I keep this conversation in text form and screenshots, and I keep backups of it.

I have a feeling I'll need them.

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  • 8
    7y
    Captchas are extremely awful and should be avoided like the plague.

    If you can use something else (such as honeypots) that doesn't affect user experience then go with it (even if it results in some spam getting through).
  • 3
    7y
    @nickpapoutsis the downside is honeypots can be exploited by tailoring the bot to it. Google captcha is doing it right with the image selection over typing. Unfortunately it doesnt work in china
  • 2
    7y
    Now make a bit that registers thousands of times in a second and show him the reason. PS: Google "I'm not a robot" check box is the best captcha ever
  • 1
    7y
    @Matthewb True but if you do not test it you will never know.

    We have a site that's consistently getting a good position on Google with thousands of visitors pet month and the absence of captchas hasn't been a problem, we only get a couple spam mails a month.

    If I were you I would implement honeypot and captcha but captcha would be disabled until the client decides the amount of spam they get is too much.
  • 0
    7y
    @Matthewb Why doesn't it work on China?
  • 0
    7y
    @laceytech I think Google is still blocked in China.
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