Fake Spam Bot Subscribers

Hello @presson2022,

I hope you’re doing well today.

In order to prevent automatic subscriptions, please consider adding a reCaptcha field for your opt-in pop-ups/slide-ins/embeds.

You can do this on the Emails tab – press “INSERT FIELD“, and then “reCaptcha“:

https://prnt.sc/WYJEZv9eyj9E

After inserting the field, configure it by selecting the type, generating the API keys, etc:
https://prnt.sc/bQO8D1dt74lz

You can find more info on configuring the field in our docs:
https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hustle/#recaptcha

Don’t forget to save the changes by pressing the “UPDATE” button at the top.

I hope this helps.
Let us know if you need any further assistance!

Best Regards,
Dmytro

You should not have to add the reCapatch. It should be able to block bots.

Hi @presson2022

None of the forms on the market is able to block bots by default. Apart from plugins which will have by default in core a code to support this, but I’m not aware of any like that. In short, if there is any thing like that, it has to be enabled as a separate feature. For example, our Forminator plugin have multiple features to block spam:

Honeypot Protection -> https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#enable-honeypot-protection

Akismet Spam?Protection -> https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#enable-akismet-spam-protection

CAPTCHA -> https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/forminator/#captcha-field

Same flow is for Hustle:

reCAPTCHA -> https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hustle/#recaptcha

Kind Regards,
Kris

Every professional website that has a popup for subscribers does not have a viewable reCaptcha. Yours, left without one will have bots hit it with fake subscribers. I have turned on reCaptcha for the time being until I find a professional solution.

Thank you