I think the JPG solution is to DISPLAY the email, and yes that works but
also requires the user to read the image & type the email addy by hand.
ANYTHING that looks like email in the source HTML is going to get
scraped. Breaking it up into chunks/hex/whatever with JS is a great idea
as long as the bot is not capable of rendering the JS for the cooked
version or figuring out the pieces.
Server side scripting that does not expose the email at all to the
client is the only way to prevent scraping IMO.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
Are you telling me that the spam bots aren't smart enough to detect the
supposedly hidden email address in the form but they are smart enough to
decode hex? If that's the case then the bots are reading the rendered
html & not the real source so if one uses an image to click on to start
a mailto: then a bot can't read that either ? So bots can not read the
source html. Hmmm, I thought bots were smarter than that. Of course it
depends on the bot. ;-)
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