Comment by jowea
1 year ago
Spamming is about quantity but stripping a "+" is something a one line script can do, which is what will happen if this gets popular. A real solution should be more resilient. Like spam binning anything that does not use the "+" ?
Well, I've always thought it would be fairly easy to strip, but I've now been doing it for 25 years and it's obvious the spammers aren't going to go to even that small effort. I once heard the CEO of wordpress say that it would be easy for them to go after adblockers too, but they explicitly didn't because the userbase that went to the trouble of installing adblockers didn't tend to be a lucrative advertising demographic anyway. It's all about return on your investment.