kasitoru

Unofficial Community Integration: 
This plugin is a community-made integration for the Yandex SmartCaptcha service. It is not developed, endorsed, or supported by Yandex.
Enhance your WordPress site’s security by integrating the powerful Yandex SmartCaptcha anti-bot system. This plugin allows you to easily add SmartCaptcha to your website forms to effectively combat spam and automated abuse.
How it works? 
This plugin acts as a bridge between your WordPress site and the external Yandex SmartCaptcha service. The smart system analyzes user behavior. If it resembles a bot, the user is prompted to solve a simple task. Real people often pass the check instantly and unnoticed.
What forms can you protect?
<ul>
<li>FREE: Comment form (ideal for blogs)</li>
<li>PRO: Invisible captcha</li>
<li>PRO: Login form (protection against password brute-force attacks)</li>
<li>PRO: Registration form (combat fake users)</li>
<li>PRO: Password recovery form</li>
<li>PRO: Access to the website is granted only after passing the captcha</li>
<li>PRO: Integration with third-party plugins:
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>WPForms (Lite & Pro)</li>
<li>Elementor Pro</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Your benefits:
<ul>
<li>Less spam: Clean comments and user database.</li>
<li>Better security: Protection against brute-force attacks and automated registrations.</li>
<li>Easy to use: Set up in 5 minutes with no programming skills required.</li>
</ul>
Start with the free protection for the comment form, and upgrade to a license if you need to unlock all the plugin’s advanced features!
This plugin is provided “as is” by an independent developer. For official information about Yandex SmartCaptcha, please visit <a href="https://cloud.yandex.com/en/services/smartcaptcha" rel="nofollow ugc">https://cloud.yandex.com/en/services/smartcaptcha</a>.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to external APIs to analyze user behavior and retrieve information about the current license status.
It sends a digital fingerprint (signature) of the user’s behavior and their IP address every time one of the forms specified in the plugin settings is submitted. 
This service is provided by LLC “Yandex.Cloud”. 
Terms of Use: https://yandex.ru/legal/cloud_termsofuse 
Privacy Policy: https://yandex.ru/legal/confidential/
The current license status is checked upon user request (when saving the plugin settings) and then automatically every hour. 
The verification process transmits the value of the website’s domain and the license code specified in the plugin’s parameters. 
This service is provided by the plugin author via the digital service kasito.ru. 
Terms of Use: https://kasito.ru/user_agreement/ 
Privacy Policy: https://kasito.ru/privacy_policy/

Advanced SmartCaptcha

A plugin that helps protect your WordPress site forms from spam and bots using the Yandex SmartCaptcha service.

famaserver

SpamBanana uses advanced Machine Learning (Logistic Regression + TF-IDF) to detect spam comments. Accuracy improves over time with admin feedback, reaching up to 99% after 2M feedbacks. No annoying CAPTCHAs needed!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>AI-Powered Detection with Machine Learning</li>
<li>Accuracy improves over time (up to 99% with feedback)</li>
<li>Real-time Dashboard with Statistics</li>
<li>GeoIP Country Blocking</li>
<li>Admin Feedback System to improve AI</li>
<li>No CAPTCHA Required</li>
<li>Fast & Lightweight</li>
<li>Secure HMAC-SHA256 Authentication</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Get your free API keys from spambanana.com</li>
<li>Enter API keys in Settings</li>
<li>All comments are automatically checked</li>
<li>Provide feedback to improve AI accuracy</li>
</ol>
<h4>Admin Feedback System</h4>
Help improve the AI by providing feedback on spam detection: 
* Mark false positives as “Not Spam” 
* Mark false negatives as “Spam” 
* AI learns from your feedback 
* Accuracy improves over time
<h4>GeoIP Blocking</h4>
Block spam by country: 
* Real-time IP geolocation 
* Select countries to block 
* Cached for performance
<h4>Dashboard & Statistics</h4>
<ul>
<li>Total comments checked</li>
<li>Spam blocked count</li>
<li>Daily trends (7-90 days)</li>
<li>Top spam sources</li>
<li>Beautiful charts</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin relies on external services to provide spam detection and geolocation features. Below is detailed information about each service:
<h4>SpamBanana API (api.spambanana.com)</h4>
What it does: Analyzes comments using Machine Learning (Logistic Regression + TF-IDF) to detect spam.
When data is sent: Every time a comment is submitted on your WordPress site (unless the user is logged in and you’ve disabled checking for logged-in users).
What data is sent: 
* Comment content (text) 
* Comment author name 
* Comment author email 
* Comment author IP address 
* Comment author website URL (if provided) 
* User agent string
Why it’s needed: WordPress servers have limited resources. By processing spam detection on our dedicated ML servers, we: 
* Reduce load on your WordPress server 
* Provide faster spam detection 
* Use advanced Machine Learning models that would be too resource-intensive to run locally 
* Continuously improve accuracy through centralized learning from millions of comments 
* Reduce AI costs for users by sharing infrastructure
Data retention: Comment data is stored temporarily for analysis and learning. Spam detection results are kept to improve the ML model accuracy over time.
Privacy & Terms: 
* Service Terms: https://spambanana.com/terms 
* Privacy Policy: https://spambanana.com/privacy 
* The service is GDPR compliant 
* No personal data is sold or shared with third parties
<h4>IP-API.com (ip-api.com)</h4>
What it does: Provides geolocation data (country) based on IP addresses for the GeoIP blocking feature.
When data is sent: Only when GeoIP blocking is enabled in settings, and only for new IP addresses not in cache (cached for 7 days).
What data is sent: 
* Visitor’s IP address only
Why it’s needed: To identify the country of origin for comments, allowing you to block spam from specific countries if desired.
Privacy & Terms: 
* Service website: http://ip-api.com 
* Terms of Service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal 
* This is a free service with rate limiting (45 requests per minute)
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
User Data Protection: 
* All data transmission uses secure HTTPS connections 
* Data is only sent when actively processing comments 
* Users can disable the plugin at any time to stop data transmission 
* GeoIP feature is optional and can be disabled 
* No tracking cookies or scripts are added to your site 
* GDPR compliant
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Support: info@famaserver.com</li>
<li>Support: support@spambanana.com</li>
<li>Website: https://spambanana.com</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by FamaServer Team 
Website: https://famaserver.com

SpamBanana – AI Spam Protection

AI-powered spam detection for WordPress. Accuracy improves over time, reaching up to 99% with feedback. No CAPTCHA required!

Advanced SmartCaptcha vs SpamBanana – AI Spam Protection