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Recently a lot of faucets have been going through bot attacks. This is a thread where you can ask questions and share your knowledge with other faucet owners.

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Some basic measures to protect your faucet:

See these threads:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1211353.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1200700.0

Make sure that your captcha is secure. Turn the difficulty settings of your captcha higher if necessary.

Antibot Links: (Note that antibot is not very popular amongst faucet users, only use if last resort.)

http://bit.makejar.com/labs/anti-bot-links-200/install.php

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Recently bots have become a big problem. Share your ideas here with other faucet owners. The best way to contribute is tell us what you do to keep bots away, and provide some code. Let's discuss ways to keep our faucets safe from bots.

Thanks for sharing these topics i think anti-bot link is nice thing to avoid bots.Because there's a lot of proxy networks & you can't block them all.

Yes, that is true, that's why this thread was created: to try and discuss a working alternative to anti-bot, as while it works really well, some faucet users find it annoying and time consuming, which is a problem that needs to be fixed.

I'm using anti-bot links on my faucet i remove them for just 2 days & lost x12 coins i usually pay to my visitors daily & most of all when i check my adsense it show that my traffic is normal but in FB admin panel lots of payments to users.  :'(
So i implement it again.Don't care if someone wanna leave my site but i will not pay to bots again  >:(

Hi

What captcha services you use for your websites?
I use reCaptcha v.2 from Google for both my faucets (http://bitcoinspace.net/freebitcoins & http://freebtc.click)  and mining game (http://game.bitcoinspace.net)
I was thinking to switch to Fun Captcha, but since they wont continue to offer a free service I wont make the change.

I just saw today one new faucet with fun captcha.Don't know what's their requirement.They want us to pay them for captcha service which is nearly impossible  :D

But if you use default antibot puzzles then bot can easily bypass antibot .

I'm currently using Solve Media, but I might change my captcha. I've found that I didn't get much success with Fun Captcha; I was still attacked by bots. It's really dumb how they're charging users now to use their service.


Wow, that's a lot of satoshis! I may implement anti bot, that seems like the only current solution. What do other faucet owners think about this bot problem?

There is also newer version of Anti-Bot script: http://bit.makejar.com/labs/anti-bot-links-201/install.php

I dont know what is the difference, maybe some small fixes.

BOT??? yes or no ???? >>>>> 1HRLXreJqMrCyz7FJNV5uLysT4qs6TKoki

On many faucets it is more paranoïa
And i feel it is more a trick to avoid payout...from the faucet owner.
I have ofter put antibot as well...but it was then to payout more.

Back in the day, when I still operated a faucet, I used a simple puzzle as human verification. Seemed to work great against bot (but not against people using multiple IP's, etc).

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20131118093014/http://www.bitcoininformation.info/faucet.php
The puzzle on that page still works, but the ajax call that the puzzle makes once it has been solved, doesn't (for obvious reasons).

Is this website
http://faucetbox.tk/