All you're doing I making it slightly more difficult for the people that want to contact you to do so.
OCR has been a thing for years.
Just put your email out there. That's what spam filters are for.
charles@geuis.com. There. Scrape it. Spam it. I don't care.
Edit:
Yes, thank you for signing me up for the DNC (already a member), some random Trump org, something about Scientology, and another random christian-based website. Honestly, I'm kind of sad at the lack of originality given the otherwise extremely ingenious community we have here.
But you just proved the point. You might not care to be signed up for some random Trump org, Scientology, or whatever, but other people do care and if you want to author a website that responsibly uses people's emails without subjecting them to unnecessary spam, then it's worth taking these techniques (not necessarily this specific one) into consideration.
While OCR does exist it's incredibly expensive compared to text scraping. The main way to combat spam is to make the cost of spamming more expensive than the benefit.
All you're doing I making it slightly more difficult for the people that want to contact you to do so.
OCR has been a thing for years.
Just put your email out there. That's what spam filters are for.
charles@geuis.com. There. Scrape it. Spam it. I don't care.
Edit:
Yes, thank you for signing me up for the DNC (already a member), some random Trump org, something about Scientology, and another random christian-based website. Honestly, I'm kind of sad at the lack of originality given the otherwise extremely ingenious community we have here.