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0 pointsqmarchi5y ago0 comments

Ah, got me there. I've gone ahead and updated it with the relevant info!

0 pointsqmarchi5y ago0 comments

Ah, got me there. I've gone ahead and updated it with the relevant info!

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kwanbix5y ago· 4 in thread

I would "encode" it as abc at my domain which is google.com or something not to get your email grabbed by bots.

jetti5y ago

At this point that is such a common tactic that I would imagine many bots already account for that.

qmarchiOP5y ago

The particular address is filtered to a sub-inbox, so I don't generally see emails there unless I'm looking for them.

Base64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.

Because an email address scraping bot that can handle "foo at bar dot com" won't ever figure out what base64 is? Srsly?

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