Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript

Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript by xyst on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:52AM (#40341727)

this used to be a problem in the early 00s. I don’t think spam filtering was as good back then so protecting your public email from spam was necessary.

Also this was a time when mail boxes were often allocated 10-25 megabytes. So spam bots could easily flood your email.

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Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript by WirelessGigabit on Monday May 13, 2024 @01:33PM (#40345838)

When I signed up for Hotmail it was 2MB.

Then on April 1st, 2004 Google launched wasn't an April 1st joke... GMail with 1GB! I remember getting a beta invite and inviting others.

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Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript by ibcj on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:49AM (#40363208)

I had to buy my invite then, like a sucker. Apparently, I didn't make the cut of my friends who got legit invites to pass around.

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