Is anyone still crawling emails in 2021?
Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#12Is this still an issue in 2021?
10-15 years ago I used to use all sorts of methods to prevent email addresses from being scraped, and I had 100s of spam emails a day to content with.
Nowadays I get maybe 2-3 spam emails a day and they're never to the 'info' or 'support' emails that I occasionally post on websites.
I don't think that this is a problem that needs fixing or requires any drastic preventative measures any more.
Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#13Is anyone still crawling emails in 2021?
Oh yeah.
Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#14Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#15Base64 encode it. If someone wants to send you email, he should be able to decode your address.
Normies don't know how to decode Base64.
Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#16I will do following
mailidmydomain.com
Re: Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
#17Base64 encode it. If someone wants to send you email, he should be able to decode your address.
Well, if a programmer wants to send you email... Everybody else will have no idea what to do with it.
You can mention that it's base64 encoded, heck you can even link an online decoder for them.