Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel...
by mikeiz404 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:51PM
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This may not be appropriate for your use case, but have you tried rotating the publicly facing email address when you get spam or on an interval?
For example [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], …).
I believe most legitimate visitors send an email shortly after visiting a page with the address while spam emails often have a much longer lead time for new addresses (it takes time to get scraped, put in a database, and then get used).
However this does mean that extended communication on that address and saved addresses will not work well.
They feed in so much context that it does appear to be a real person and it ends up wasting a lot of time and honestly it's quite hurtful. We spend a lot of time sharing our stuff and these fake connections are a major turnoff.
Recently we encountered a wave of "awards shortlist" sort of emails written by AI with deep context that will cosider us for award for one easy payment! Except they always forget to tune the topic as we're not running software security service, we cover web scraping.
I feel like AI will kill email communication between strangers. It's getting so exhausting.