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Hide the link from users?
by tlrobinson 16y ago
Hide the link from users?
- pyre 16y agoI seem to remember there being a thread on HN about spam bot scraping for email addresses, and some of them are sophisticated enough that they can even determine if an element has been hidden through rules applied via an external CSS file.
- Aloisius 16y agoLink a 1 pixel image and stick it in the bottle left hand corner? While someone could click on it, it is extremely unlikely. IIRC, technically you can have a 0 pixel image in some formats (gif) though I imagine some browsers won't like that.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- autoreverse 16y agoUsing a 1 pixel transparent GIF works - also worth putting in a warning for screen readers not to follow the link. FWIW I've been using robots.txt honeypots on two sites for the past few years to deter scrapers. Approx 1,600 IP addresses have been banned. Most of these are for data centers.
- derpy 16y agoFuck you guy, that's pretty pricky. Is bandwidth that expensive for you?
- migrantgeek 16y agoThat's uncalled for. If he owns the data and pays for the connectivity, he should be free to do as he pleases just like I can exclude you from my home or business without justification.
- autoreverse 16y agoI like humans browsing my sites but I certainly don't want scrapers copying my work wholesale, claiming it as their own and ranking ahead of me in SERPs. I'm not alone :-) see http://incredibill.blogspot.com/ http://incredibill.blogspot.com/
- eli 16y agoThis is what Project Honeypot does http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php#f http://www.projecthoneypot.org/faq.php#f