Email address protector
Spam robots collect email addresses that appear as plain text in a web page's source. This tool turns your address into a small snippet you paste into your page. Visitors see an ordinary clickable link, but the address is not written anywhere in the code.
Nothing leaves this page. Your address is not sent or stored, and the page tells your browser to block every network request. Unlike some similar services, there is no outside site involved at all.
Your snippet
Paste this into your page's HTML where the link should appear.
Check it
What visitors will see
With JavaScript (nearly everyone):
Without JavaScript:
Honest limits
- This slows spam robots down. It does not stop them. A robot that runs a page's JavaScript can still read the address. Most collectors do not bother, which is why this helps.
- The safest way to publish an address is not to. A contact form, or a throwaway alias you can delete when it fills with spam, works better. See the email alias guide.
- Do not type the address anywhere else on the page. If your link text, page title or another paragraph shows it in plain letters, robots can read it there.
- Some sites block inline scripts (a strict Content-Security-Policy). If your snippet does nothing, that may be why, and visitors will only see the fallback text.
- People who use screen readers get the link normally once the page loads. The fallback text is for people with scripts switched off.
- Once an address has been published in plain text anywhere, it is already collected. This only helps for addresses you have not yet exposed.
Where to put it: see Set Up Your Own Server. Best available precautions, not guarantees.