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Ask HN: What are best Practices for obfuscating Mail Addresses in Html?

6 points by sirwitti ↗ HN
Hello!

Say you need to output email addresses with mailto links in html. What are best practices to prevent bots from harvesting the email addresses?

Thanks a lot, Martin

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jkaykin
This seems to work well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483212/effective-method-t...
lgas
It's important to note that these types of methods may be effective against random drive-by harvesting, but if someone wants to write a bot to harvest these email addresses specifically it would still be trivial. This may or may not matter depending on the OP's context.
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I'm nervous about any JavaScript because when Natural Language Processing was offered as a Coursera course, the first homework assignment had you searching for the obvious JS solutions and casing for them.
[dead] fulotta
make an image of the email using an image library