Simple tool provides code to cloak HTML email addresses to prevent harvesting by spam spiders. At present some programs collecting email addresses can already decrypt addresses encrypted with almost any method and add them to their database. Neither javascript cloak, nor html cloak can help. To protect against such email harvesters, you should not specify your email address on web pages in any form (neither plain nor encrypted) and Email Cloaker for Web 1.2 allows you to protect your addresses in such a way.
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Excellent work. I am very grateful for this simple, yet useful application. The Unbreakable HTML Cloak is the only way to truly protect your email address from spam harvesters.
Fine idea. Looks like a new way of spam protection... But what about privacy? Is it secure?
[Version 1.2]
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Anonymouscommented on 05 Mar 2005
http://xinbox.com/policy.php
Anonymousreviewed on 02 Mar 2005
You should add support to insert a subject line into emails.
[Version 1.0]
Anonymousreviewed on 24 Feb 2005
Use SpamStopper: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10623.
This app looks like an attampt at ripping-off RAILhead Design's software, though SpamStopper has a LOT more features -- and yes, it's free, too.
[Version 1.0]
1 Reply
Anonymouscommented on 04 Mar 2005
Learn something about the respective products before jumping to (false) conclusions.
Anonymousreviewed on 24 Feb 2005
Anonymous, this method of "cloaking" is very popular, so most email spiders can easily harvest your email address and create lists for SPAM:)
It's better to encode it with Email Cloaker.
[Version 1.0]
Anonymousreviewed on 24 Feb 2005
Or you could keep things simple and just type it out...
Email me johndoe at mywebsite dot net
Just seams easier that way
[Version 1.0]
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Anonymouscommented on 24 Feb 2005
This method of "cloaking" is very popular, so most email spiders can easily harvest your email address create lists for SPAM:)
It's better to encode it with Email Cloaker.
Anonymouscommented on 11 Mar 2005
Not everyone/everything (person/machine) is savvy enough to translate something like "user at example dot net" into a valid e-mail address. That method of obfuscation may be useful and sufficient in certain contexts, but it's too "geeky" in situations where it's important for certain people to make convenient contact. Really, it would only take a couple minutes to find someone who doesn't understand it.
I don't claim to be an expert on which people-friendly, spam-unfriendly contact methods to use but anyone who disagrees with my observation about that particular type of address obfuscation is living in a vacuum, isolated from the reality of how naive and ignorant many Internet users still are about what others take for granted.
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Simple tool provides code to cloak HTML email addresses to prevent harvesting by spam spiders. At present some programs collecting email addresses can already decrypt addresses encrypted with almost any method and add them to their database. Neither javascript cloak, nor html cloak can help. To protect against such email harvesters, you should not specify your email address on web pages in any form (neither plain nor encrypted) and Email Cloaker for Web 1.2 allows you to protect your addresses in such a way.
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heathermason reviewed on 13 Jul 2006
Anonymous reviewed on 11 Mar 2005
Please contact me at http://xinbox.com/serg
http://macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=17320&pid=93472
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Mar 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Feb 2005
This app looks like an attampt at ripping-off RAILhead Design's software, though SpamStopper has a LOT more features -- and yes, it's free, too.
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Feb 2005
It's better to encode it with Email Cloaker.
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Feb 2005
Email me johndoe at mywebsite dot net
Just seams easier that way
It's better to encode it with Email Cloaker.
I don't claim to be an expert on which people-friendly, spam-unfriendly contact methods to use but anyone who disagrees with my observation about that particular type of address obfuscation is living in a vacuum, isolated from the reality of how naive and ignorant many Internet users still are about what others take for granted.
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Derek_g rated on 21 Oct 2011