Problem/Motivation

We have been using Antibot for a couple of years now and never seemed to get bothered by SPAM any nore so we assumed it was doing a great job.

HOWEVER, Over the last few weeks, we have suddenly been mde more 'aware' of it's actions because we seeing the page shown below (pictured here on a smartphone)....

antibot page

Mostly, after a short delay, the page redirects silently to the right place but occasionally, it pops up a proper CAPTCHA.

We were just wondering why this might be so and should like to canvass the community?

SYSTEM (PRODUCTION)

Drupal 10.6.1
A custom subtheme Bootstrap5 (Bootstrap5 4.05)
LiteSpeed webserver
PHP 8.4.15 , memory limit: 512M
MariaDB 10.6.24-MariaDB-cll-lve 
PHP Caching module: OpCache
Version 143.0.7499.170 (Official Build) (64-bit)
CommentFileSizeAuthor
antibot_page.jpg16.3 KBsirclickalot

Comments

sirclickalot created an issue. See original summary.

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sirclickalot
Primary language English
Location Somerset
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Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?

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danrod
Location Ottawa
commented
Related issues: +#3406484: Antibot blocks multistep webform submission if user fails to move mouse pointer, and all submissions from some assistive technologies, +#3419697: No longer protecting

Perhaps this is related with these issues below?

#3406484: Antibot blocks multistep webform submission if user fails to move mouse pointer, and all submissions from some assistive technologies
#3419697: No longer protecting

I know antibot can still be bypassed by running something like Selenium with ChromeDriver and simply bypass all the mouse movement and timing checks.

Check this comment here: https://www.drupal.org/project/antibot/issues/3419697#comment-16183380

I know there's a lot to do for stopping these bots that are using Selenum to bypass Antibot.

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sirclickalot
Primary language English
Location Somerset
commented

After further experimentation, I think this symptom turns out to be a hosting 'feature' and is not anything to do with this module.

Thanks all for your contributions, closing now.

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sirclickalot
Primary language English
Location Somerset
commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Now that this issue is closed, review the contribution record.

As a contributor, attribute any organization that helped you, or if you volunteered your own time.

Maintainers, credit people who helped resolve this issue.

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danrod
Location Ottawa
commented

Thanks @sirclickalot , I'll kindly give you a credit for the investigation, which could be useful if a new similar issue pops out.