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Dev tools · March 19, 2019

Email Address Obfuscator

Generate a "mailto:" link which will confuse naïve spambots.

Email Address Obfuscator launched on March 19, 2019 with 7 votes, #1,443 of 2,994 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

There are a number of "spambots" which roam the web "harvesting" email addresses to send spam to. This free Email Address Obfuscator uses obfuscation to generate a "mailto:" link which will confuse naïve spambots, but will still work in standard browsers.

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