Need assistance with massive amounts of spam

[MikeNolan]

The comments in the fingerprinting plugin tool topic may not fully agree with you regarding the legality of fingerprinting and the EU.

Discourse Fingerprint - Browser Fingerprinting Plugin

Discourse Fingerprint Discourse Fingerprint comes as a tool to community managers in their combat with internet trolls. It works by computing a unique identifier (a fingerprint) of each registered user, by taking into consideration over 20 browser characteristics such as user agent, screen resolution, timezone, device memory, etc. When each of these browser characteristics are considered separately, they are not enough to assess whether two users are the same. There is a …

Thankfully I don’t currently have a site for which fingerprinting would seem a useful anti-spam measure.