NP Formshield vs SpamBanana – AI Spam Protection

NP Formshield provides comprehensive spam protection for your WordPress forms with an intuitive dashboard and powerful filtering options. Supported Form Plugins: * Contact Form 7 * Gravity Forms * Forminator * Ninja Forms * WPForms * Fluent Forms * Elementor Forms * Custom Forms (coming soon) Key Features: * Beautiful, user-friendly dashboard * Blacklist and whitelist filtering * Field-specific protection rules * Real-time form validation * Link detection and blocking * Email validation * Easy form management * Responsive design How It Works: 1. Select your form plugin from the dashboard 2. Choose the specific form you want to protect 3. Configure protection rules for each field 4. Set blacklist or whitelist words/phrases 5. Save and activate protection External services This plugin may redirect users to external websites in the following scenarios: Pro Version Page: When users access the “Pro Version” menu item in the WordPress admin, they will be presented with a page containing a link to our website (https://needsplugin.com/np-formshield/) where they can learn more about Pro features and pricing. This is a user-initiated action – users must click the “Buy Pro Version” button to visit the external website. No automatic redirects are performed. Premium Upgrade Notices: When users interact with premium features or disabled premium form plugins in the dashboard, they may see upgrade notices with links to our website. These links open in a new tab and require explicit user action (clicking the link). All external links are clearly labeled and require user interaction. No data is automatically sent to external services without user consent.

SpamBanana uses advanced Machine Learning (Logistic Regression + TF-IDF) to detect spam comments. Accuracy improves over time with admin feedback, reaching up to 99% after 2M feedbacks. No annoying CAPTCHAs needed! Features AI-Powered Detection with Machine Learning Accuracy improves over time (up to 99% with feedback) Real-time Dashboard with Statistics GeoIP Country Blocking Admin Feedback System to improve AI No CAPTCHA Required Fast & Lightweight Secure HMAC-SHA256 Authentication How It Works Install and activate the plugin Get your free API keys from spambanana.com Enter API keys in Settings All comments are automatically checked Provide feedback to improve AI accuracy Admin Feedback System Help improve the AI by providing feedback on spam detection: * Mark false positives as “Not Spam” * Mark false negatives as “Spam” * AI learns from your feedback * Accuracy improves over time GeoIP Blocking Block spam by country: * Real-time IP geolocation * Select countries to block * Cached for performance Dashboard & Statistics Total comments checked Spam blocked count Daily trends (7-90 days) Top spam sources Beautiful charts External Services This plugin relies on external services to provide spam detection and geolocation features. Below is detailed information about each service: SpamBanana API (api.spambanana.com) What it does: Analyzes comments using Machine Learning (Logistic Regression + TF-IDF) to detect spam. When data is sent: Every time a comment is submitted on your WordPress site (unless the user is logged in and you’ve disabled checking for logged-in users). What data is sent: * Comment content (text) * Comment author name * Comment author email * Comment author IP address * Comment author website URL (if provided) * User agent string Why it’s needed: WordPress servers have limited resources. By processing spam detection on our dedicated ML servers, we: * Reduce load on your WordPress server * Provide faster spam detection * Use advanced Machine Learning models that would be too resource-intensive to run locally * Continuously improve accuracy through centralized learning from millions of comments * Reduce AI costs for users by sharing infrastructure Data retention: Comment data is stored temporarily for analysis and learning. Spam detection results are kept to improve the ML model accuracy over time. Privacy & Terms: * Service Terms: https://spambanana.com/terms * Privacy Policy: https://spambanana.com/privacy * The service is GDPR compliant * No personal data is sold or shared with third parties IP-API.com (ip-api.com) What it does: Provides geolocation data (country) based on IP addresses for the GeoIP blocking feature. When data is sent: Only when GeoIP blocking is enabled in settings, and only for new IP addresses not in cache (cached for 7 days). What data is sent: * Visitor’s IP address only Why it’s needed: To identify the country of origin for comments, allowing you to block spam from specific countries if desired. Privacy & Terms: * Service website: http://ip-api.com * Terms of Service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal * This is a free service with rate limiting (45 requests per minute) Privacy Policy User Data Protection: * All data transmission uses secure HTTPS connections * Data is only sent when actively processing comments * Users can disable the plugin at any time to stop data transmission * GeoIP feature is optional and can be disabled * No tracking cookies or scripts are added to your site * GDPR compliant Support Support: [email protected] Support: [email protected] Website: https://spambanana.com Credits Developed by FamaServer Team Website: https://famaserver.com