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In Omnibus · #4 02-06-2020, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by attroll

I am going through Cloudflare right now and I am still having this issue.
Could you please explain what you mean by configuring special anti-bot rules for the registration page through Cloudflare?

The most effective solution I have found is to ask security questions only users with a genuine interest in your forums can answer. You can set up all the rules you like but spam bots and particularly human spammers can get around those rules using proxies or spoofed headers or other simple tricks.

If you want to try CloudFlare you might start here:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en...Agent-Blocking

And here:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/b...er-agent/84265

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