---
title: "Obfuscate your email"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2026/04/obfuscate-your-email/
last_updated: 2026-04-05
---


[Evie Fae](https://ev-fae.quest/obfuscate-your-email/):

> I've had trouble with email addresses visible on the public web getting
> snatched by bots and peppered with endless spam
>
> [...]
>
> 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](https://github.com/thiagowfx/thiagowfx.github.io/commit/228180f6bb4d36cc2fe64a3ad12c4d5fabae4ebd)
enabled it. Win-win!

I asked the LLM to write an [ADR]({{< ref "2026-01-11-adrs-and-llms" >}}) about
the
[implementation](https://github.com/thiagowfx/thiagowfx.github.io/blob/master/docs/adrs/0011-email-obfuscation.md).