Just curious if any other type of geo-block is being researched / investigated for use with AdminTools? Since we lost this functionality, our client websites have been inundated with spam form submissions.
#33282 Any GeoBlock soluton being investigated?
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Latest post by on Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:17 CDT
Saturday, 20 June 2020 19:08 CDT
LukeDouglas
Monday, 22 June 2020 00:33 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
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The short answer is no.
The long answer can be found in https://www.akeebabackup.com/news/1727-removal-of-geographic-ip-features-from-akeeba-software.html. Let me copy & paste the few sort sentences which are the gist of it
Regarding the Geographic IP Blocking feature we had been warning you for a very long time that it is NOT a security feature [...]
Even if we were to replace MaxMind GeoLite2 Country database with a different solution or service the problem would remain. [...] Putting resources into replacing one problem with an identical one makes no sense to nobody.
I hope this clarifies it for you.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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Wednesday, 22 July 2020 17:17 CDT
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