I’m getting tons of spam submissions on a hubspot form on my webflow website. I’m on the free plan and I cant use the ReCAPTCHA because i need to restyle the form elements and that is only available thru an embeddable iframe. Any suggestions?
Hey @garrettwolfe, thank you for posting in our Community!
Another option is to add custom validation if you can use JavaScript, or try creating a custom HTML form in Webflow for more styling control. Hopefully, one of these helps reduce the spam.
To our top experts, @TomM2 and @Anton do you have any other recommendations for the @garrettwolfe matter?
Thank you,
Pam
Hey @garrettwolfe this is unfortunately just a drawback of having a public form on a public page. If you can’t use the HubSpot provided recaptcha you’ll need to implement your own validation process in some way.
Hey @garrettwolfe,
checked it with a free portal of mine.
- Recaptcha is possible and available in free accounts. Also it should never be restyled as it’s sort of “trademark” of Google.
- You should definitely add some data privacy options to your form - regardless of the spam. It could be something simple like “I have read and accepted the terms of use”…
- You can add a hidden field to the form and build some sort of a so-called honeypot solution with JavaScript(usually you could do this with a workflow, but it’s not available on free/starter) like “if hidden field is populated - deactivate Subscribe button”.
Reason for this is following: A human will never populate a hidden field. Therefore if the system recognizes that the field is populated it deactivates the button and it’s harder(not impossible) to trigger the form sending button/option.
best,
Anton