My Truden Life

Give them a cookie

Download TruBar 3.0(Lessen) TruBar 4.1(Silent)  Help for TruBar

[UPDATE] TruBar 4.0(Silent) is updated to TruBar 4.1(Silent). The installation process is simplified and all possible cookie problems are cleaned off.
The download link points now to the new version.

[EDIT] If you need help for this plugin, please visit TruBar home page.

You all are sick and tired of the spam in your Akismet spam-bin. Right?
I wasn’t happy too.

Then I made TruBar.

The concept

In coding we give cookies to the registered user, or to mark preferences or for thousands of other things.
We never give cookies to the robots, because no robot will take cookie to mark itself as a robot.
Then why not giving cookies to the human users?
If the user doesn’t hold a cookie it is to show that this user is not human.
There are many ways to give cookie to human and one only way for the robots – find it.
But we can help robots to find the wrong cookies.
TruBar has plenty of them.

What is TruBar 3.0 (Lessen)

It is very small plugin (less than 2KB) which gives cookies to humans :D
If you get the cookies you can post or you can register in my weblog.
If you can not take them, then you are a robot.
That is the simplest way to stop automated registration and comment posting.
With TruBar automated comment posting is stopped on POST and even Akismet doesn’t know about the attempt.
In this regard TruBar is the best Akismet helper.
In fact Akismet is left only with the track-back work.

As you can see in my weblog, you must click on a link to unlock comment posting.
Once you click on the unlock link you get a cookie.
That is it.
No security images.
No popUp windows.
No sophisticated checks and filtering.
Then you click the “Submit” button.
Your comment is received and your cookies are taken away from you.
Next time you’ll get cookies again ;)

It is the same with the user Registration.
Click the unlock link and then the submit button.

The robot must UNDERSTAND the request and execute it.
But there is no link and page to go for the cookies.
They are right here on the same page, yet unreachable for the bots.

Well, there is plenty cookies around for the robots.
If they get them, they’ll never be able to post.

Is it easy to install TruBar 3.0(Lessen)?

The “Lessen” word is Bulgarian and means easy
Easy to install, easy for the user, easy for the system.
There is nothing to load except a small function, which gives cookies, if you click on the link.

The only scary think is that you must edit your

and

You need to insert in them two cookie checks and one cookie “kill”. (Code is provided with the instalation ZIP file)

If you want to have the red warning above the “submit” button, you must edit your comments.php in all your themes.

There is one robot-trap file in the ZIP, which you must rename if you want to have unique name, and multiply it with different names for better result .

How to install TruBar?

Download TruBar 3.0(Lessen) TruBar 4.1(Silent)
Read INSTALL.txt in the ZIP file.

The name

What “TruBar” stands for?

“Tru” stands for true and comes from Truden, which in Bulgarian means difficult
“Bar” is bar.

I’ve already told you what “Lessen” means?

Few BAD words about the spamers

We all know that spammers are CLEVER.
To be clever with TruBar, the spammer must personally target you.
Still, the sucker must be VERY clever to do “normal” SPAM, over TruBar’s protection.

TruBar 3.0(Lessen) is lighter version of TruBar 2.0(Lessen), which is not released.
I’ll keep it for darker days ;)

Important to know!

TruBar is making your weblog much faster.
It stops SPAM on POST and doesn’t pass it to Akismet for additional processing.
TruBar does one check – cookies.
Simple and fast.

The End

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