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Google Captcha for Registrations

miqrogroove - 1-1-2018 at 06:13 PM

I've disabled the old secret cookie hack because I felt the user experience was not optimal.

Almost immediately, we are seeing multiple automated registrations every day. The minimum posts and new user moderation hacks prevent them from spamming, but I still want to block the bots.

Seems natural to require new users to complete a Google-hosted captcha these days. It will be my next little project here.

miqrogroove - 1-2-2018 at 07:33 PM

Here's the hack.

We are using it now on this site.



Attachment: google-captcha.zip (5kB)
This file has been downloaded 71 times


bluebaka92 - 1-6-2018 at 12:51 AM

Hey,

How do I install this on a shared web host, seeing as it appears to use some sort of SSL certificate in order to work?

Thanks for any help in advance.

miqrogroove - 1-6-2018 at 02:59 AM

The certificate file does not need any changes. Just provide the full path to the file as described in the instructions.

bluebaka92 - 1-6-2018 at 07:20 AM

Ah, that's good, I'll give it a try Monday. ^^