Bot Prevention

What is Bot Prevention?

Bot prevention refers to the methods and techniques used to identify and prevent automated software, known as bots, from accessing or interacting with a website or application. It monitors the way a user interacts with a website or application, such as the amount of time taken to complete a task, mouse movements and the way in which they navigate through the pages, and uses that information to identify and block bots.

Bot Prevention is designed to provide users with increased security and protection against malicious bots. It works by preventing bots from accessing and manipulating user accounts. This means that users are better protected against malicious attacks and their accounts remain secure. Bot Prevention is devised to give you greater control over the user experience on your survey. It’s essential to protect your users from malicious bots that can steal data, create spam, or worse.

Bot Prevention with BlockSurvey:

BlockSurvey’s Bot Prevention feature is powered by Cloudflare’s Turnstile. Turnstile is a smarter, invisible CAPTCHA alternative. Basically, it works by providing the browser with challenges that scan behind the scenes for signals that indicate a human is using the browser. Instead of requiring users to solve a puzzle or enter a series of characters, Invisible CAPTCHA uses advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze the behaviour of users and determine whether they are human or bots. This allows for a seamless user experience, as users are not required to complete any additional steps to prove their humanity.

With our Bot Prevention feature, you can now detect and block bots from your website, giving you increased security and peace of mind. The Bot Prevention feature is powered by sophisticated algorithms that can detect and block bots without affecting the user experience. It will help you protect your data and avoid issues associated with malicious bots.

Uses of Bot Prevention in survey:

• Preventing bots and automated programs from submitting responses in the survey
• It ensures that the survey responses are coming from real human participants and not bots or other automated programs.
• Verifying that the person taking the survey is paying attention and not just randomly clicking through the questions.
• By preventing bots from submitting responses, it can help to reduce the number of invalid or duplicate responses in the survey.
• By making sure that the survey responses are coming from real human participants, it can help to improve the quality and accuracy of the survey data.
• Helps in protecting user data and prevent data breaches by verifying the users are human.

What are the advantages of Bot Prevention?

• Improved data quality: By preventing bots from submitting responses, bot prevention techniques can help to improve the overall quality and accuracy of the survey data.
• Reduced invalid or duplicate responses: Bot prevention techniques can also help to reduce the number of invalid or duplicate responses in the survey, which can improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the survey process.
• Protection of user data: Bot prevention techniques can also help to protect user data by ensuring that only real human participants can submit responses.
• Protection from automated attacks: Bot prevention techniques can help to protect websites and other online platforms from automated attacks and scraping, which can cause performance issues and compromise user data.
• Reduced survey abuse: Bot prevention techniques can also help to prevent survey abuse, such as people trying to complete the survey multiple times or using automated scripts to complete the survey more quickly.
• Better representation of population: By preventing bots and automated programs from submitting responses, bot prevention techniques can help to ensure that the survey results are a better representation of the population being surveyed.

Best practices for using Bot Prevention:

How to Set Bot Prevention in BlockSurvey?

1. Once the Survey has been created, navigate to the "Survey Settings”.

2. You can find the “Prevent Bot Detection” under the General section. Enable the bot prevention to protect you survey from malicious bots or automated activities.

In conclusion, bot prevention is an important aspect of online surveys and forms as it helps to ensure that the survey responses are coming from real human participants and not bots or other automated programs. It is a great way to further enhance your security and protect your data. We understand that data security is of the utmost importance for our users. That’s why we’re committed to providing the best security possible, and our Bot Prevention feature is an important step in that process. We’re confident that our users will be able to take advantage of this feature and rest assured that their data is safe.