Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by paradox460 on Monday May 13, 2024 @12:39PM
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The practice of email address "obfuscation" feels like a relic of a bygone era, one that was never actually sound in its methodology, but spread. A form of cargo-cultism has kept it alive
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Re:Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JavaScript
by SoftTalker on Monday May 13, 2024 @01:21PM
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Yeah just looking at this, it appears to add about 1K of overhead and at least one additional http request for something that ultimately boils down to a mailto: link, so it can still be scraped, and just adds bloat to your web page.