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Obfuscating email addresses on your website

Spammers harvest email addresses by crawling websites. It’s common knowledge.

But for a personal website, you want people to have your email address… and solutions such as writing ‘user [at] domain.tld’ look ugly and aren’t user-friendly – and neither is using something like ReCAPTCHA mailhide.

But there is one thing you can do that might help to foil the spammers – use Javascript to split up the email address so automated crawlers (hopefully) won’t see it, and then to recombine it in the user’s browser so that it’s readable and clickable:

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