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Has Google Broken JavaScript Spam Munging?

Posted by kdawson on from the step-too-far dept.

Baxil writes "For years now, Javascript munging has been a useful tool to share email addresses on the Web without exposing them to spammers. However, Google is now apparently evaluating Javascript when assembling summary text for web pages' listings, and publishing the un-munged email addresses to the world; and spammers have started to take advantage of this kind service." Anyone else seen this affecting their carefully protected email addresses?

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  1. Welcome to the club by fataugie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Google:

    Welcome to the "Impossible to do anything right" club.

    Regards,

    Wal-Mart,
    Microsoft,
    G. W. Bush

    --

    WTF? Over?

  2. Re:Mung by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >The wikipedia page also links to munge - modify until not guessed easily -
    > which I guess is what the original person intended

    Then the original poster is a chimp and so are you. If you aren't aware that adding ~e may change the meaning of a word, I should come round and rap your ears.