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robotswantdata
22 hours ago
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Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
How does that work if the scraper takes a screenshot to feed to a LLM or OCR?
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yummypaint
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That seems like a very expensive way to crawl the internet
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robotswantdata
20 hours ago
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Scrape normally collect emails, if no email seen take screenshot and OCR OCR is cheap and REGEX is cheap
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woctordho
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It would be interesting to show bf code rather than the actual email on the webpage. A lot of OCR systems struggle with this kind of repeated symbols where the exact count is required.
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