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		donatj on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA In my experience, the vast majority of spam bots don’t run JavaScript, so simply setting a hidden input to a specific value on key down and checking for said value server side has prevented 99%.

aventrix on June 12, 2019 [–]

Seems to me this would interfere with the accessibility of the website for those that use screen readers.

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