Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by muzster on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:42AM
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Heavily 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.
Edit: Converting web page to an image is trivial.
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Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by zipping1549 on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:52AM
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It won't make sense cost wise though
Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by omneity on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:53AM
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Except the cost is only going down over time
Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by muzster on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:22PM
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True - but that cost just halved with today's introduction of "GPT-4o". The other cost is time.
IMHO - I think there is more to worry about than email scraping..
Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by internetter on Monday May 13, 2024 @10:07AM
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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
by muzster on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:17PM
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Agreed - it's a waste. GPT is not too bad at reading text from image and with the added bonus that you can reason with it.
Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by barkbyte on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:10PM
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In no world is anyone wasting resources to run an AI model to parse a page that may or may not include an email address. Even running a DOM parser is more than they’d typically do. This is silly.