Obfuscate email addresses for Spambots and Crawlers
By utilizing css text-direction property text can be transformed into useless jibberish for crawlers and spambots.
.obfuscate {
unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
direction: rtl;
text-align:left;
}
This will make the content appear reverted.
<span class="obfuscate">Hello</span>
“Hello” will be displayed as “olleH”.
To make the text appear correct for your users, you either enter the text reversed, or make use of a programming language.
Example for Rails, output will be readable by humans as expected:
<span class="obfuscate">
<%= "Really sensitive data".reverse %>
</span>
also known as text reverse inception :)
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