Recently on one of the websites I maintain[1], a strange message cropped up:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For a moment, I was two things
1) Surprised
2) Pleasanlty surprised
3) Somewhat disappointed
I was suprised because I wasn't aware that the message was there, pleasantly surprised because "somebody" was trying to protect the email address from spambots. Disappointed, because really and truly, that message is simply not necessary if Javascript IS enabled. So despite being happy about the protection, the implementation falls a bit short.
In case you want to disable this in Joomla, the only thing you need to do is Extensions Manager > Plug-In Manager > find the "Content - Email cloaking" plugin and disable it. Now that message will be gone, but so will your Spambot protection. For Spambot protection in Joomla, we do use a very good script, ZBBlock which works well on any PHP based website[2]. We also use Joo Recaptcha, to protect registration and contact pages from Spambots. The two together have worked very very effectively to rid us of the huge amount of SPAM we used to receive. Now it's mostly legit requests which we get!
References
- ^ one of the websites I maintain (www.askdorianne.com)
- ^ ZBBlock which works well on any PHP based website (www.dart-creations.com)
