Option to encode personal data to avoid be indexed.

  • Resolved masajeintegrativo

    (@masajeintegrativo)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Dear team,
    I see the plugin use internally a function to encode the website email address that appear in Cookie Policy page (frontend) and avoid that it will be indexed by spidering bots.

    As the page owner email address or other personal data are also show in other website pages like “Contact page” or “RGPD pages” when these pages are not created by your plugin, these other pages are unprotected from spidering bots.

    Do you have any solution like a shortcode or similar to use your encode function to protect the email address or other personal information like phone number that appear in other website pages?

    I hope this option will be possible, as non protected personal data into frontend is the main cause of SPAM reception.

    Thanks in advance,
    Agustin

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  • Plugin Contributor Aert Hulsebos

    (@aahulsebos)

    Hi @masajeintegrativo,

    I think this function will only work for email addresses. I read an article once about the best methods, surprisingly one of the most reliable ones was a CSS trick. Which should be easy to implement and works for any string.

    Together with an AntiSpam tool like Akismet, I would be surprised if spiders would still be successful.

    Here is the article; https://perishablepress.com/best-method-for-email-obfuscation/

    Hope this helps,

    regards Aert

    Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    To leverage the Complianz obfuscation, you can use this mu-plugin:

    https://github.com/Really-Simple-Plugins/complianz-integrations/blob/master/obfuscate-email-shortcode.php

    To use an mu-plugin, please check this article:
    https://complianz.io/adding-filters-with-mu-plugins-quick-easy/

    Thread Starter masajeintegrativo

    (@masajeintegrativo)

    Hi Rogier & Aert,
    Thanks a lot for your information.

    @rogierlankhorst I install the shortcode using a code snippet in my website and seems it works fine. When I add the shortcode instead the only text with the email, the email is obfuscated in the page code. Great!!!

    Is it correct to use snippet code instead mu-plugin?

    I see that your shortcode every time force the showed email to be link as mailto, is it possible to disable the mailto function to only display email without link?

    Also I check that shortcode don’t works into a link option of Elementor widgets like buttons or icons. I check to use the shortcode directly as a link and also use the shortcode into dinamic tag function of button link, but the result is the same, the shortcode don’t work and the mailto link don’t appear.

    How I can use your obfuscation shortcode into elementor widgets?

    I wait for your instructions.
    Thanks in advance,

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