By Giulia Magnesa on Monday, 28 August 2017
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Hi
Is it possible to insert a Captcha field in blog subscriptions request?

Recently, we have been under spam attack through blog subscription request

Thank you
Giulia
Hey Giulia,

Hm, we don't generate any captcha for subscriptions but why would there be a need to prevent this eh? Since these are just subscriptions, it doesn't actually do anything.
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Monday, 28 August 2017 21:56
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As I wrote in my ticket: we have been attacked as we received a lot of fake subscriptions request from our website

It was a spam bot and inserting a Captcha field could help to avoid this kind of attacks

If not available, could be possible to have it in the next EasyBlog version?

It will make your component more secure

Thanks
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Monday, 28 August 2017 22:23
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Hey Giulia,

Hm, we could do that but that would actually reduce your subscribers because it would actually make it harder for them to subscribe. Have you tried to turn on the option here, http://take.ms/L5spw
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 00:40
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yes but it is not the same
Also it is best to have in the configuration an option if to use or not use captcha...it will be my decition hotw to do

i prefer to have less subscribers but not spam ;-)
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 14:47
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Hey Giulia,

Do you mean even you enabled this option 'Require User To Agree Before Subscribing' (screenshot : http://take.ms/L5spw ) from backend, your site still getting those spam subscription email?
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:36
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No, I mean it is not enough
I want captcha code to be security compliant
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:42
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Thanks for getting back to me, perhaps I can help you move this thread to "EasyBlog - feature request" category so we will see if there a lot of user also requested this feature, we will definitely consider to implement this in the future version.
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 23:29
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ok move this post in the requests list as for me is important to resolve this issue

Thanks
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:32
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Alright.
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017 17:56
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