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		mintplant on Nov 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA Interesting. If I may ask, what alternate routes did you take to counter spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs?

pbreit on Nov 25, 2014 [–]

Honeypots and timestamps would work in many cases. There are folks who want to captcha anything because they couldn't care less about users. But then when you take a step back and question if it's really necessary, it's frequently not.

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