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by super-serial 2540 days ago
It's completely dependent on the traffic of the site if a spammer takes the time to break a custom captcha.

I work on a site with 10 million monthly pageviews and spammers register on a form that has recaptcha and email verification... and we tried hidden input fields and other tricks, but each day we have consistently had 5 new spam accounts. With SVG they can just take a screenshot of what a user sees and send that to OCR. Complex math will turn away as many legitimate users as spammers.

The only real way to stop spam is to use a 3rd party API to detect it, or use something like a karma system that builds up over time. I think we're at the point where simple solutions won't work well unless you have a small site.

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That's true when we talk about 10M monthly pageviews, but I doubt that this little extension will reach such popularity levels. If this somehow happens, by that time there will be a way to enable 3rd party captchas for any page.