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Obfuscate your email

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Evie Fae:

I’ve had trouble with email addresses visible on the public web getting snatched by bots and peppered with endless spam

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It turns out that most spam bots aren’t all that sophisticated, and if you wanted to write something on your page like: Send an email to me at evie[DOT]fae[AT]mydomain[DOT]com then you don’t have much to worry about when it comes to email harvesters. I don’t actually like this solution because it introduces too much friction into the communication process.

Evie shares a user-friendly workflow to obfuscate email addresses in public websites such as the personal blog you’re reading.

I just enabled it. Win-win!

I asked the LLM to write an ADR about the implementation.