Hey folks, I was about to build a public app without sign-in requirements and then realized that forms in Glide do not seem to be protected from spam. There’s no reCAPTCHA integration or anything else I could see that would work to protect bots from filling out forms. Is there something that could…

If it’s a public app then it rules out the option to use a rollup and count the number of submissions from an account, let’s say in the past 24 hours. But I think you can build a table with a single row to serve as your “public user profile” row, and build your tab on top of that row. Add a “sessio…

Following up on this conversation: can a field that is not visible (via visibility condition) still be filled automatically by a bot? In which case we can use a hidden field as a honey pot to catch if it’s a spam? (assuming that a bot fills most fields). If the field is filled, then we know it’s a b…

[image] burningmikey: Following up on this conversation: can a field that is not visible (via visibility condition) still be filled automatically by a bot? I doubt it. Does the bot fill those fields by elements on the screen (in that case it’s a no), or by sending POST requests to your table …

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ThinhDinh May 5, 2023, 11:48pm 4

Would be sweet with the new “query” column. I imagine you would be able to set the source table being the destination table, then filter by “session ID” is “screen’s session ID” and “time is within today”.

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