How to Stop Spam in Subscribe to Newsletter?

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As in the title, how can we stop spam bots signing up for our newsletter and creating hundreds of entries (many the same) that need to be deleted?

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How is your sign up form built?

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It’s just Concrete default; in the footer.

I’m thinking of removing it.

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The default form is Express. You could enable a captcha, and the default secure image captcha could be swapped for reCaptcha or for a marketplace captcha.

The next step would be to add @mnakalay 's Anti-Spammer Master Anti-Spammer Master :: Concrete CMS Marketplace

Or you could add a more highly functional forms package such as my Form Reform Form Reform :: Concrete CMS Marketplace, which supports further defence measures including integration with Anti Spammer master. But that is probably overkill for a simple newsletter signup.

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Cloudflare Captcha appears on the contact form but not the newsletter subscribe box.

Playing around, I found it. Need to Edit the form.

I do so love Concrete. So simple, even if it makes me feel stupid sometimes.

Thanks for your quick response.