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I read a lot about honeypots techniques to prevent spam but most of articles I've seen seem to be old. So I was wondering if nowadays, with all this smart bots, the fact of simply hiding a field with CSS can block them. Do the bots understand that a field is not shown and they should let it as it is ? And also, do they understand that a field is required or not ?

In others words : how effective is the honeypot technique ?

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Some bots know about it and has a special routine to identify the honeypot.

Please see this question:

How effective is the honeypot technique against spam?

And there are more techniques to intensify your guard:

Please see this question:

How to create a "Nuclear" honeypot to catch form spammers

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