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The contact form from https://www.tromsite.com/contact/ has been restored to the original one. The new one was kinda shitty and flagged most emails as spam. So we would not get any email....the weird thing is that, believe it or not, it is damn impossible to find a good, simple and non-google integrated contact form for WP. This is crazy.

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in reply to Tio

Why does this google shit has to be everywhere? Its crazy how ubiquitous these tech giants are, its almost getting to the point where we can't properly function in society without having one of their accounts!

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in reply to Rokosun

For contact forms it is this recaptcha spam filter that is owned by google and it is used by the vast majority, almost all, contact wp plugins....they may do a good job at it, but they also inject trackers and collect data...

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in reply to Tio

Most of the times you don't even need a recaptcha, I like how you guys just ask simple questions on all of your websites to filter out spam bots.
in reply to Rokosun

What websites? Because the contact forms we have are on https://www.tromsite.com/contact/ and my website https://www.tiotrom.com/contact/ - these use a smartish spam filter in the background. I wish I could find contact forms with simple question based spam filters....
in reply to Tio

Oh I meant the simple question based spam filter on https://directory.trade-free.org when you try to submit a new post, I thought you guys were using similar methods for all your websites.....
in reply to Rokosun

Ah yeah thats different....yeah I wish we could do that for contact forms....
in reply to Rokosun

And somehow we still get a lot of spam reviews for TFD....I have no idea how....
in reply to Tio

Are they spam bots ? If you want a more powerful captcha then maybe you can use this open source one - https://github.com/daniel-e/rust-captcha
I believe this is what @LemmyDev uses for account creation and stuff like that.
in reply to Rokosun

Probably spam bots....as for implementing that is not as easy ofc....not for me at least. I use WP for a reason: I won't code any website from scratch. I use plugins. I install, tweak, customize. That's my power. Not more than that :D
in reply to Tio

Its OK, I just wanted to let you know this exists, is fine if you can't implement it now :)