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Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

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Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

#92
Not only "protecting your email" is pointless like others have already pointed out, it's actively harmful.

There are a fair few sites, where most all content is perfectly readable without JS, except things like "1920x1080@60Hz" are displayed as literal "[email protected]" text.

Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

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post #92

Not only "protecting your email" is pointless like others have already pointed out, it's actively harmful. There are a fair few sites, where most all content is perfectly readable without JS, except things like "1920x1080@60Hz" are displayed as literal "[email protected]" text.

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Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

#95

this works if you write it into the html on fullmoon tuesdays : some.dude@the.otherdudes.site

That works for humans. There's no reason to believe bots aren't handling entity parsing.

Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

#97

this works if you write it into the html on fullmoon tuesdays : some.dude@the.otherdudes.site

That works for humans. There's no reason to believe bots aren't handling entity parsing.

In my experience they haven't been in the past, but LLMs change the game by doing it by default.
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