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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. Re:It's not google, it's the web developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And then you have Web 4.0 abominations like idle.slashdot.org. Yes, it's so bad that I just skipped Web 3.0 altogether. Honestly, is Pudge a fucking retard or what?

  2. Re:Welcome to the club by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wal-Mart #1 fortune 500
    Microsoft - 90% market share for productivity software
    G. W. Bush - President of the USA

    Man you have a strange sense of what "doing right" is.