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Why not obfuscate your email? I don't condone spamming, but anyone that has their email in plaintext knows what to expect.
by codexon 11y ago
Why not obfuscate your email?
I don't condone spamming, but anyone that has their email in plaintext knows what to expect.
- dangrossman 11y agoI value being easy to contact more than having a spam-free inbox. Customer service is perhaps the top reason people give for using my products against alternatives, and is heavily correlated with someone becoming a long-term customer. I think you overestimate the amount of spam having an e-mail address on a webpage generates, too. These mails are about all I get.
- codexon 11y agoYou can easily obfuscate your email to web crawlers by generating the email text and link through javascript. This is what many people like Cloudflare do.
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- codexon 11y agoThey could but they probably don't. You could easily assemble it on hover or on click. And bait the bots by putting a hidden element above that if they are randomly activating events, then it disables your email display code. Or any number of tricks to make it impossible for any spammer to harvest your email unless they specifically target your script. WHOIS isn't meant for soliciting. I don't check it regularly, and I would be surprised if any customers contacted you that way. But that's just me.
- macNchz 11y agoMy email is in plain text all over the internet and I get next to no spam. The worst spam I've ever dealt with was from the Princeton Review–a supposedly legitimate business–after taking an LSAT sample quiz online. They wouldn't leave me alone for years despite my best efforts.