data-netlify-honeypot="bot-field" since 2022; reCAPTCHA v2 added Dec 2024
I’ve had a Netlify form with honeypot enabled for several years on my live site (loumarcsigns.com , Netlify site: loumarc-signs.netlify.app ). Six months ago, I added reCAPTCHA due to increasing spam submissions. However, in the last month, spam submissions have significantly surged, now making up about 50% of all form submissions.
I’ve checked the forums and haven’t found any recent reports of similar spam increases. I’ve also been marking spam manually in the Netlify dashboard regularly throughout May.
Has there been any recent change in Netlify Forms spam filtering that might explain this sudden spike? Are there recommended adjustments I could make to improve the effectiveness of reCAPTCHA, or any other strategies worth considering?
When using ReCaptcha, the Akismet spam detection is automatically disabled. So if bots and spammers are surpassing ReCaptcha on your website, unfortunately there’s nothing that can be done. I don’t believe switching the captcha provider would essentially fix that, but if you think so, as I mentioned in that post, you can implement and Edge Function to use hcaptcha or any other spam detection tool that you’d like.
Why was this thread unlisted? I can see an icon of an eye with a slash on it and the following, “This topic is unlisted; it will not be displayed in topic lists, and can only be accessed via a direct link.”
Did I do something wrong that was against the forums rules to have it unlisted?
I recently set up CapJS with a Netlify function. It is working in that emails that do not pass the challenge are being sent to Spam submissions (in the dashboard), however email notifications are firing for these emails—so me and my client are still getting these spam emails. Can you confirm that email notifications from Netlify are fired before any submission-create.jsNetlify function is called and results returned? Did I just waste an evening of work installing CapJS only to realize I can’t use it with Netlify’s email notifications?
Hi, @frankstallone. I’ve opened a support ticket to track this question and find the answer. If you do not see an email about ticket # 399747, please let us know here. If you do see that email, please reply there with any follow-up questions or information.
Regarding why your post was unlisted, I see this happened to several of your posts but it isn’t transparent as to why this occurred. Maybe you are composing the posts in a different editor and then pasting them here. That can cause the bot protections here to make false positives. I’ve increased your trust level on this forum to hopefully prevent that from occurring again.
Ticket email received. Appreciate you helping out with this, and the odd behavior with my account and this forum. I promise I am human, my engagement is legit!
