> useless CAPTCHAS (any sufficiently advanced bot can get around any CAPTCHA anyway). We solved this at our startup by (…). Of course this is easy to get around if the bot knows what you’re doing
So, by your own admission, your solution doesn’t get around the “sufficiently advanced bot” problem.
Yes and I don’t claim to solve the problem completely. It’s an impossible to solve problem which BigTech wants you to pay mafia protection money to “solve”.
I added custom captcha (simple math as slightly distorted pictures with audio alternative) on one of my forms, it prevents ~80% of spam submissions. less than 1% of spam passes, other ~20% are blocked on key words (like "sex", "passion", etc...).