Hi, What's the recommended modern best practice for putting a contact email address on the web while avoiding having it scraped by spam / fraud bots?
I'm aware of many of the techniques in use, such as the ones discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23002711/how-to-show-email-addresses-on-the-website-to-avoid-spams but I don't know how smart the current bots are and which methods are likely to still be effective. I want to use free software, of course, and I want to avoid server side stuff, since I want to put an address on a simple third party web page that I do not control but have the ability to put basic HTML on. I suppose I could use a text-to-image generator (a sort of reverse OCR), like this one: https://www.generateit.net/email-to-image/ but I'd rather find a FLOSS tool to do this, and I'd rather not provide the email address to some random site ;) And actually, I'm not sure this is really such a good solution anyway, since I'd probably have to find somplace to host the image, which is certainly doable, but it adds complications that I'd just as soon avoid. Is character entity substition likely to still work against current bots? http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html Celejar
