Protect Your email address from Spam using reCAPTCHA Mailhide

Monday, August 9, 2010

reCaptcha, one of the widely used span protection System has launched reCAPTCHA Mailhide to help users protect their email address from unnecessary spams. Revealing the email Address
on websites will get your email ID noticed by spam bots and this will cause getting tons of spam and unnecessary Email reaching your inbox. reCAPTCHA Mailhide simply helps you protect your inbox by asking people to solve a reCAPTCHA before they can view your email address.

reCaptcha Mailhide
The reCAPTCHA Mailhide has been designed to make your email address accessible to humans only. It provides a captcha form that can only be solved by humans, so this is able to stop email spam done by automated programs.
For an example, if your email is john.email@gmail.com, reCAPTCHA Mailhide will display it as john…@gmail.com and upon clicking the … part, a pop up window will appear with a captcha code and after successful verification, anyone can see your complete email address.



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You can use either the direct link to the email address or the HTML version of it that can be used on websites. They also provide API key to developers to play with the codes.

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