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I need new methods to protect bots from faucets. Some of the old methods no longer work , so I need fresh methods that work for you. If you don't want to share your method with too many people , PM me please , I may give a tip if the method works really well.  ;)

utilize social website authentication or similar. not only a facebook but also a twitter? could work

usually many faucet site uses a programing for accuracy of timing of login to the user account . if you can change your bot time in random login to the faucet site then you can make your bot easily profitable for faucet sites .

I had serious problems with bots too, they ate me hundreds-thousands of satoshis daily.
I let them to do that, and analyzed their behaviors..

And i found few solutions:

- 1) if your webserver using .htaccess file, try to add ALL Russian IP address ranges to blocklist into .htaccess file - i can show you how, if you want.
- 2) #1 is not very good solution (losing possible fair play users) , i started to combine lots of methods of captcha.  and i realized , that re-captcha combo with anti bot links is not good, but Keycaptcha (free) + re-captcha is strong enough and bots are not eating my satoshis

also you can assign your webserver to cloudflare, change nameservers of your web provider to cloudflare and use reverse proxy in faucets.

but advice #2 is good enough to prevent the bots


i hope it helps

ah - ha. i figured it was some sort of 2FA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication)! but i didn't know the specific term till today :o

I would imagine if you had the right combo, you could use four and rid yourself of all the bots for a long while?

whats the best method to prevent bot? damn 1st try i lost 600k sats, 2nd try i lost another 400k due to lost damn

Use script (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1599533.0) with unique captcha: http://faucetsystem.com/img/screens/fullsize/8.png
Plus use services for proxy (tor and vpn) detection.

You can block TOR and VPN access as most of bots use vpn or tor browser to cheat as well as you can limit payout per day or per hour from your faucetbox account so that you can detect or even block bots if they try to claim unlimited within few hours or days.

the keycaptcha + recaptcha combo seems to be ok to kick the bots  , plus i have anti VPN and anti proxy detectors in all index.php i have :)

Honestly i think they are not using bots right now instead they are using countdown resetter or they are using tor instead to bypass the the timelimit to your site.. that can drain your faucet fast.. so you should ban tor or similar browser in your faucet so that they can not drain your faucet fast..

You should look at this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1200700.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1200700.0)
In the lasts pages you can find new options to prevent attacks from bots...

Thanks guys , keep the methods coming there are a lot of good methods in here , I will try them out and send tips if any of them work  ;)

Please keep posting methods!