#5953 - Captcha before revealing emails
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By Adam Edington
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| Identifier | #5953 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Captcha before revealing emails |
| Status | Open |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | General / Uncategorised |
| Description | I saw this on Youtube, basically when revealing the email of the channel you have to click a box to say you are human. I am not sure if this is better than obfuscation but it might provide an additional layer of protection against harvesters. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Funded? | No |
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We already employ our own obfuscation where e-mail addresses are encoded using HTML entities (please let me know if this is broken). You don't see it unless you go into the source of the page; it appears normal when rendering the actual page. But bots will have a harder time trying to figure it out.
If a harvester can figure out the entities, they will likely figure out the CAPTCHA as well (because it's probably a human paid to be a spammer), so it will not be a very fruitful solution.
Perhaps this is worthy of a different, more privacy-oriented approach. Maybe we need a setting that allows members to control whether they want their e-mail address to be seen? If set to no, any instance of their e-mail address site-wide will be redacted.