[sackfield]

Email obfuscation was already obsolete, if you were relying on these techniques to prevent scrapers from finding your email you have been doing it wrong for close to a decade and annoying your customers at the same time. Spam filters are really good these days and what they don't catch you can make custom filters for.

[starcraft2wol]

And yet, I still get significantly less spam by using a simple approach like an image. It's about raising the cost above 0, not making it impossible to crack.

[checkyoursudo]

I have always had a mailto: link on my personal website. The bad old days of spam were pretty bad, but in the last like, I don't know, 10 years maybe I have gotten probably 1 email per week or less that gets through to my inbox. My university email even is on my public profile page at the university website, easily findable and for the whole world to see, and that has only ever gotten like a handful of spam emails that get through quarantine, and otherwise I only have to approve/delete quarantined emails like once every 2 months.

The problem with having obfuscation/image/whatever is that it becomes annoying or even burdensome to try to get your email address into my email client. I'd rather just copy/paste some text or click a mailto: really.

To each their own of course, but I do wonder how many people take more extreme measures now because they were badly burned (as was I, believe me) in the old days before stricter auth methods and better filters and such.

[wiml]

What do you use for spam filtering (or do you outsource it to Google)? My spam filters have gotten leakier of late, but I haven't gotten around to fiddling with them again.

[deepsquirrelnet]

Which is why you shouldn’t worry about it now. Nobody is going to use ChatGPT for this due to computational costs, when this could be easily done using MUCH smaller models like T5, or even just with detection using NER.

The fact that these methods have existed for years and is radically cheaper and more computationally efficient completely invalidates any reason to have concern over ChatGPT being able to do it.

[tecoholic]

I was just thinking the same. Even hobby scrappers aren’t going to be that lazy to not transform at and dot when scrapping.