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		nojs on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of J... This is a cool trick. The email is in cleartext in the source, meaning mailto works and copy-paste works. But most scrapers probably skip the .svg file.

pdonis on May 13, 2024 [–]

> most scrapers probably skip the .svg file

But they won't as soon as they realize it's just easy to parse text that contains data they're looking for.

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