Sneaky attempt at serving ads with malware

  • A few months ago I raved about Sweet Captcha’s efficiency at blocking spam. I can no longer recommend it, all thanks to a sneaky and dangerous decision by its creators to serve pop-up and pop-under ads. Many of the ads contained malware, ransomware and other dangerous and disturbing content. I spent almost 2 days trying to locate the culprit, and it was this plug in. You can read more info at https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/sweetcaptcha-service-used-to-distribute-adware.html

    My original review follows:

    Fun and effective.
    It’s a fun and effective captcha, blocking all bot/spam comments 100%.
    Giving 4 stars because lately there has been downtime of the service. This is not a self-contained plugin and it requires connectivity to the remote server to function.

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