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		turboturbo on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of J... The idea also seem to be that spam bots don’t look for `href="mailto:something"` in the DOM

edave64 on May 13, 2024 | [–]

The mailto is inside the SVG, not the HTML document. So that's not "also" it's the same idea of bots not looking at the svg at all

rrr_oh_man on May 13, 2024 | [–]

That seems surprising, tbh

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