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There’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
by cchance 2y ago
There’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