Comments on: Another creative way to prevent bots from stealing your email addresses

By: raveman

raveman — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:13:17 +0000

if i was bot writer i would log everything that is not right email, but got ‘mailto:’ text. I think you should hide that(even be adding it char by char, but simple encription would be much more cool)

By: Willem

Willem — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:38:33 +0000

Hi Raveman,
You’re right, to trick the bots you can be as creative as you want to be. Something like this will mislead the bots as well:

‘:otliam’.split(”).reverse().join(”);

It splits :otliam into an array, reverses the chars and joins it.

By: Sander

Sander — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:28:10 +0000

When I’m not lazy I use something like this:

e(’user’,'domain.com’);

function e(u,d) {
document.write( ‘‘ + u + ‘@’ + d + ‘‘ );
}

By: Drewster

Drewster — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:21:57 +0000

Hey, nice solution. Only one thing, use a span and not a div as you are not allowed to put a block level element in a inline element and I guess you would (should) but this kind of text inside a p or something of the like.