Email address obfuscator

Hiding your email address on your web site

[mw11]

In this HTML section, on this very same subject, a thread was started on Apr 10, 2014.

However, we're no longer able to respond to that thread, because it's "too old". Therefore I have no choice but restart it here and now...

As to hiding MY email address, what I myself use is a JavaScript that I found at AptArticle. It's a simple JavaScript that you (or any webmaster) can use. And no, you don't need any coding experience.

Which one is better? A JavaScript or a picture of your email address? In my experience, a JavaScript always beats the picture of your email address, because A) the JavaScript generated email address always looks better. B) because the JavaScript generated email address is a lot more user-friendly. And C) because you can always modify the JavaScript code in two minutes or less.

Therefore, choose JavaScript!

[tangor]

For those running JS disabled browsers, this is no solution, and JS can be read at the view source level... night not give the result desired.

More human-level (avoiding bots/scrapers) is spelling it out

myname at thisdomain period tld works a treat, even for js disabled browsers and even better is to use a .gif of the "@" and the "."

Only drawback is the user has to type it... it is not a "click"/

Anything that allows a "click" to send will most likely be found by email scrapers.

[mw11]

Which one is better? A JavaScript or the format of "yourname at yourdomain dot com"? In my experience, the JavaScript always beats the latter, A) because the JavaScript generated email address always looks better. And B) because the JavaScript generated email address is a lot more user-friendly.

Therefore, choose JavaScript!

[diddlydazz]

javascript can be interpreted by any intelligent bot/harvester that are worth their salt.

obfuscation through text/image mix is the way to go IMO

[mw11]

@Diddlydazz,

In theory, yes. And this is what most people worry about. They begin imagining that the cheap. lousy bots (robots) are as powerful as the super computers of the NSA.

However, FYI, the bots are not even close! The bots are not smart at all! They're just like ctiminals. They concentrate on nothing but the easiest targets. And JavaScripts are NOT easy at all!

In my own experience, after 10 years of many-many trials and errors, ever since I've switched to JavaScript, I've never received any spam!

[tangor]

The top search engines have been reading JavaScript for a few years, so it's not hard to imagine the bad bots can as well. Some even read text images with advanced OCR... though very few.

One has to make the decision of being secure or looking good and that's something only the individual webmaster can decide.

[Marshall]

I found a good email encoder some time back and have not received spam since: [mailtoencoder.com...]

Marshall