Hide email address from spammers with Javascript – a new attempt
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Please contact me for text I would also sign, not only acknowledge or if post got broken during one of many server upgrades. I will be most grateful.
Please contact me for text I would also sign, not only acknowledge or if post got broken during one of many server upgrades. I will be most grateful.
In true Don Quixote fashion, I made a new attempt to make email harvesting more difficult. It won’t work forever, but it will work longer than previous one, which hasn’t fail yet either.
This time I use a bit different approach. Instead of replacing spam-proof, but not directly usable email addresses with mail links on page load, I create mail links on page load, but populate them when mouse moves over them. This way they are still perfectly usable, but less likely to be abused. They are also less friendly, since you can’t see email address until you move your pointer over it. But that was the point, to prevent javascript enabled scrappers.
You can download new version or check a demonstration on alternative version of my homepage.
Hi,
I am using
http://www.mobilefish.com/services/hideemail/hideemail.php to protect my email address against spam bots.
This site also contains other useful tools.
Comment by Jane — August 16, 2008 @ 4:28 pm