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By bloggingdeveloper
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Published: Nov 12 2009 / 03:13

The idea here is setting up a form with a text field which is made invisible by using CSS. After form submission, if that text box has information in it, that means a human didn’t fill it out (because this field is invisible for humans), and the submitted form is simply aborted.
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eelmore replied ago:

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This will also be easily defeated someday.

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bloggingdeveloper replied ago:

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This would only help for generic spam bots, since any spam bot, written to spam specific resources, can still succeed.

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