Make Email Addresses on Websites Invisible to Scrapers and Harvesters!   - 2,519 Views, 3 Comments

Summary: Webcomposing Internet Solutions has just released Unicoder v1.1, which is a perl script which "allows you with a single click to convert an email address to a unicode javascript that makes your email address on your website 100% invisible to ...

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Webcomposing Internet Solutions has just released Unicoder v1.1, which is a perl script which “allows you with a single click to convert an email address to a unicode javascript that makes your email address on your website 100% invisible to any type of email collecting robots”.

As most of you know, while the harvesting of email addresses from a website is prohibited by Federal law, that doesn’t stop those outside the U.S., or, indeed, U.S.-based ne’er do wells from harvesting their little hearts out (oh, wait, do spammers have hearts?)

Unicoder works with any *nix/Apache based site, and can be found here.

Make Email Addresses on Websites Invisible to Scrapers and Harvesters!

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  1. Heh, now that I’ve got your email address I can send you……. lol, only kidding, a similar this was written in VBS which is also similar to the perl too….

    Comment by Kari Sinkko — 5/19/2004 @ 11:57 pm

  2. I wrote a Java applet a short time ago that does the same thing, you can find it at http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/index.htm?emailencrypter.htm :-)

    Comment by Liam McBrien — 5/20/2004 @ 4:06 am

  3. Hi,
    I am writing a utility in ASP that uses double encryption. Not that it will make it impossible to hack, but adds one more level of difficulty to it. Not everyone allows scripts to be run, so it adds a noscript option. The utility is not finished yet, but when it is, it will be found at http://pcWisdom.iUpTown.com and will be free to use. If anyone is interested in helping with this project, there is contact information at the site.
    Paul

    Comment by Paul Coleman — 5/20/2004 @ 6:30 am

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