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Best way to protect email address from web crawlers?

irishgeoff22 on November 07, 2023

Protecting your email address from web crawlers is essential to prevent spam and other unwanted emails. Here are some strategies you can use to saf...
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Ben Sinclair

Don't obfuscate your email address or render it as an image, it's poor for accessibility.
Likewise, don't use look-alike unicode characters.

You want people to be able to read your email address, and you want people to be able to copy and paste the address into their own email clients.

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