Maybe I’m too stupid but I don’t get why you would want to do this at all.
Had my email in plaintext on the website for ages and never had an issue with spam…
Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
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Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#102How about posting 2 email addresses, a hidden one, and the actual one. Using the hidden one to filter the actual one
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#103How about posting 2 email addresses, a hidden one, and the actual one. Using the hidden one to filter the actual one
This has been my approach since the mid '90s. It works very well.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#104Heavily guarded fortress would indicate something of value inside, and the big crooks may spend a little more effort. In the age of AI, this becomes even easier. { "model" : "gpt-4-turbo", "messages" : [ { "role" : "system", "content" : [ { "type" : "text", "text" : "return a json array of all valid emails found in the image." } ] }, { "role" : "user", "content" : [ { "type" : "image_url", "image_url" : { "url" : "da…
We've had OCR for decades before GPT. I suspect GPT might perform worse than OCR. What a waste.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#105Don't have time to test myself right now - what about accessibility, can a screen reader read it?
I tested and seems accessible on the live demo. Not sure if is as protected as the author claims though, but it might throw some bots for a spin.
> but it might throw some bots for a spin.
Until some bot dev sees this, accepts the challenge, and then solves it as a function within their package that never needs updating again because it is now done. So, live it up while it is not solved. After that, just shrug your shoulders at yet another idea no longer being useful
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#106I assume that nowadays emails are pulled directly from hacked mailbox contacts list. Nobody has the time to go through each individual website and collect emails one by one.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#107I assume that nowadays emails are pulled directly from hacked mailbox contacts list. Nobody has the time to go through each individual website and collect emails one by one.
I assume that emails are pulled from every method available.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#108A friend of mine is an absolute wizard and has been building essentially “responsive images” as SVGs with JS inside. They adapt to their size programmatically. It’s… interesting.
The fact that SVGs can even have JS embedded feels both untapped and kind of dangerous.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tested and seems accessible on the live demo. Not sure if is as protected as the author claims though, but it might throw some bots for a spin.
> but it might throw some bots for a spin. Until some bot dev sees this, accepts the challenge, and then solves it as a function within their package that never needs updating again because it is now done. So, live it up while it is not solved. After that, just shrug your shoulders at yet another idea no longer being useful
The key in this case is that this is not a problem for me even if someone implements such a protection.
The rest is mice and traps.
Re: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
#110I assume that nowadays emails are pulled directly from hacked mailbox contacts list. Nobody has the time to go through each individual website and collect emails one by one.
No body. Web crawler bots.