Using Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA to Protect ve_guestbook from Spam
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The first question that comes to your mind might be: “Who uses guestbooks nowadays anyway?”. Well, personally I don’t, but I maintain two sites that were created in the mid 2000s that have a guestbook installed—and people are still using it. It’s ve_guestbook for TYPO3.
In the past years, guestbook spam has become a real issue for me—even though I had been using the captcha TYPO3 extension (screenshot above). Apparently, spam bots have evolved over the years and can now easily circumvent those CAPTCHAs. Suddenly, the guestbooks were flooded with hundreds of spam entries: