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Aside from having to have something to parse out the submission as the response isn’t that human readable, I think the biggest problem is that users need a mail
by prepend 2y ago
Aside from having to have something to parse out the submission as the response isn’t that human readable, I think the biggest problem is that users need a mail client and requires them to hit send. This disorients people so even if they have a mail client, you end up with people not hitting submit.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoI think you can register GMail and Outlook as mailto: handlers, but I've certainly never tried it.
- prepend 2y agoYou can, but many people do not do this.
- arnorhs 2y agoYou can. It is actually relatively hard to do though unless you are extremely motivated. Where you have to find a setting in mac / windows as well as configure your browser (chrome) for it, by using an obscure icon in the address bar etc.. and then you can have some apps fighting for you to change the setting. And then it depends on which browser profile is currently active. It is pretty messy to say the least
- cchance 2y agoThere’s also the bigger issue your directly exposing an email address to web scrapers like it’s not the 90s using mailto forms is a shocking take as acceptable
- prepend 2y agoThis isn’t really a concern for me. I’ve had my gmail exposed to web scrapers for decades without making me regret it. For this purpose though it’s a non-issue as I also have a contact email published on my site so people can email me. And I would create a separate mailbox just for the form. I’m not sure why people are concerned about their email being scraped as it’s comical that any email address isn’t already on a million spam lists.
- arccy 2y agoexposing mail addresses on the web is fine as long as you have semi-decent spam filters. obsfucating addreses won't work much longer anyway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150096