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		SahAssar on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protecting your email address via SVG instead of J... If concealing it in an object tag works then you could just have the object tag show it as plain text or html, right? Not sure why its an svg.

juped on May 13, 2024 [–]

probably because the scraper has "that's an image, skip it" logic

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