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The solution to captcha annoyance is not more annoyance in the form of a spammy-looking game. You can get to 99% of the use cases using some simple javascript logic and a hidden form element that is invisible to the user and catch the rest using a solid spam-detection algorithm on the server. The solution to spam is not to annoy your users. At least reCAPTCHA helps transcribe books…



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