Comment on Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?parentComments−robotswantdata5moHow does that work if the scraper takes a screenshot to feed to a LLM or OCR?−yummypaint5moThat seems like a very expensive way to crawl the internet−robotswantdata5moScrape normally collect emails, if no email seen take screenshot and OCR OCR is cheap and REGEX is cheap−woctordho5moIt 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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How does that work if the scraper takes a screenshot to feed to a LLM or OCR?
That seems like a very expensive way to crawl the internet
Scrape normally collect emails, if no email seen take screenshot and OCR OCR is cheap and REGEX is cheap
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.