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PayPal button to hide your e-mail address
Thursday, August 16, 2007
If you want to use PayPal 'buy now', subscription or shopping cart buttons on your website, PayPal very kindly generates the code for you to use when you fill in your details.
Most of the time, you can probably use their inbuilt encryption, but if you want to use certain options, you'll find the encryption can't be used.
This means that your e-mail address is lying unencrypted in the code of your website for any spammer or spambot to come along and find. This is a BAD thing and vastly increases the chances of you receiving offers for all kinds of products you never even knew existed.
So how do you overcome this? Very simply actually. In a post on e-junkie, I found a very quick and easy solution:
- Log in to PayPal and generate your button code, pasting it into your webpage where you want the button to appear. Don't save just yet.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the PayPal page and you'll see a link called "Referrals".
- On this page, you'll see a link like https://www.paypal.com/row/mrb/pal=xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
- Copy the xxxxxxxxxxxxx part of the code and paste it over your e-mail address in step 1.
Labels: programming, spam, webdesign
