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Something wrong with landfill topic

Everytime I open Landfill, this topic's name quickly changes from

to

why does that happen? shouldn't the name stay the same?

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

For security, any public emails are encoded by CloudFlare, and decoded when the page finishes loading.

You can check the page's source.

MWstudios

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

For security, any public emails are encoded by CloudFlare, and decoded when the page finishes loading.

You can check the page's source.

ah okay

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

For security, any public emails are encoded by CloudFlare, and decoded when the page finishes loading.

You can check the page's source.

not in his pic h emeans it chnage s to the real email an dnot to the emial protected

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drunkbnu

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

For security, any public emails are encoded by CloudFlare, and decoded when the page finishes loading.

You can check the page's source.

not in his pic h emeans it chnage s to the real email an dnot to the emial protected

Read again.

Emails are initially hidden, as in the first picture. They're decoded and therefore shown when the page finishes loading.

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

For security, any public emails are encoded by CloudFlare, and decoded when the page finishes loading.

You can check the page's source.

not in his pic h emeans it chnage s to the real email an dnot to the emial protected

Read again.

Emails are initially hidden, as in the first picture. They're decoded and therefore shown when the page finishes loading.

What's the point of that?

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drunkbnu

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

Emails are initially hidden, as in the first picture. They're decoded and therefore shown when the page finishes loading.

What's the point of that?

To prevent bots from grabbing and spamming emails.

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

Emails are initially hidden, as in the first picture. They're decoded and therefore shown when the page finishes loading.

What's the point of that?

To prevent bots from grabbing and spamming emails.

hwo to preven that if they can let the bots wait a few extra seconds?

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drunkbnu

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Re: Something wrong with landfill topic

Emails are initially hidden, as in the first picture. They're decoded and therefore shown when the page finishes loading.

What's the point of that?

To prevent bots from grabbing and spamming emails.

hwo to preven that if they can let the bots wait a few extra seconds?

You clearly seem to not know how those bots work.

They don't run page scripts, they just extract emails from the raw HTML data of a page.
Bots aren't normal browsers that can run scripts and view such content normally as you think.

There's still a slight chance of more complex bots capable of running these scripts to exist, just as browser extensions to automate email grabbing, but they're the minority. This solution keeps working perfectly for the majority of bots written with this purpose.