Obfuscation means that techniques are employed to modify email address strings that appear on your site in such way that bots scraping your site are unable to identify those addresses however, at the time those emails addresses should still look and work for visitors, as much as possible..
While techniques abound for obfuscation, the three techniques included provide you with the best balance of email address protection with minimal impact on visitors.
Please read Details section of this documentation to learn more about the techniques employed..
The fourth of his techniques is also included even though it did get small amount of spam — the technique was still very effective and more does not rely on users to have CSS or JavaScript enabled..
Weigh the requirements against what you're comfortable requiring of visitors order for them to see and make use of email addresses you post on your site...
Using CSS, the text gets reversed so that visitors see the email addresses as intended.
Email scrapers don't recognize the in their reversed form and don't utilize CSS engine to help determine how text would look onscreen...
Using CSS, the text gets hidden so that visitors see the email addresses as intended.
However, in your browser it would appear to you as it does prior to obfuscation, and the link for the email would still work.
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