Honeypots versus CAPTCHAs for form spam
CAPTCHAs ask every visitor to prove they are human. A honeypot asks only the bots. Here is where each one works, and why the strongest setup uses several cheap layers.
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CAPTCHAs ask every visitor to prove they are human. A honeypot asks only the bots. Here is where each one works, and why the strongest setup uses several cheap layers.
Layered spam defence for public forms: honeypots, rate limits, origin allow-lists, idempotency and content checks — and when a CAPTCHA is actually worth the friction.
A public form endpoint is unauthenticated by design. Here is what genuinely protects it — and which popular measures are theatre.