Hide your Email for HTML Scammers/Parsers

2 points·bavidar··9 comments

Created a cool little script that allows you to display your email but hides it from the html, JS so know when can scrape. Try it: --- <p id="eid_id"></p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.leoreavidar.com/js/email.js"> </script> <script> window.onload = function() { appendStyle("username", "gmail.com") }; </script>

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Worked for me

Fail

what happened? did you get an error?

What, you can't scrape that?

no you cant. Take a look. Its not HTML. the email appears no where in the HTML,JS, or CSS. Its a hack that dynamically changes the pseudo selectors and combining the before and after to make a complete word.

A can scrape "appendStyle("username", "gmail.com")" just as easy as I can scrape "username at gmail dot com".

I think your missing the point. The text is going to be encrypted in and then decrypted in the external JS. The append style parameters are just to show that nothing is in the html/js besides that.

This is how its supposed to work:

<p id="eid_id"></p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.leoreavidar.com/js/email.js>; </script> <script> window.onload = function() { appendStyle("dXNlcm5hbWU=","ZG9tYWlu","Y29t") }; </script>

Like I said, a scraper can easily decode your appendStyle parameters. Do let us know when you perfect perpetual motion though.

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