The purpose of this text munger is to allow you to munge any amount of text. This is ideal for sites that want to display markup and also if you want to munge/encrypt an entire web page and sites that want to display actual html code.
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NOTE: The text munger will encode any text you give it, including any HTML markup you use to format the page. There are two reasons for that. Many people want to be able to display html code, such as the meta tags I discuss in the FAQ. This text munger allows you to do that. But even trying to skip over html markup is impossible, because html markup varies far too greatly from page to page and unfixable bugs are invariably introduced.
Do you recommend the ASCII or JavaScript munger?
I recommend the JavaScript, definitely. Though they're both good, notice that to find an ASCII munged address, a spam bot has to look for ASCII encoded text. To find your JavaScript munged address, it would have to both run javascript functions AND look for ASCII encoded text. The advantage then becomes obvious.
How good is this text munger?
The purpose of the mungers was originally to hide text from bots while still making it visible to real people. The text munger can also be used, for example, to display HTML, ASCII, JavaScript, and other code by encoding twice, i.e. encoding text into plain ASCII, copying and pasting the resulting ASCII code into the left text box, and encoding that.
For those two purposes, the mungers are excellent.
If you want to hide your website from search engines, see below. If your goal is to hide text from real people, you need to reevaluate whether you want to post your site on the web. If you really do want to post your site on the web AND you want to hide the text from real people, then you need to use a different service.
But I also want to hide my webpage from search engines. What do I do?
First, be sure that that's what you really want to do. If it is, paste some or all of the following meta tags into your page header:
What is ASCII?
ASCII (pronounced AS'kee) stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It's a very standard system that computers use to index every character that your computer can display. ASCII indices are useful because they allow you to display characters not found on your keyboard (like ¢£¤¥§°). Since every browser recognizes the ASCII indexing, you can actually write your entire page using just ASCII codes for every character on your page. To see a table of ASCII codes, click here.
Do you retain a copy of my text?
No. Besides the huge amount of storage space that would take, that would completely defeat the purpose of this page. You are free to examine the source code for this site.
Do I have to pay you to use this site?
No. Obviously not. Linking to this site is definitley appreciated.
I have more questions. Where can I find answers?
Either checking out our FAQ page or contacting us at .