Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Summary
A practical guide evaluating common email obfuscation techniques used to hide addresses from spammers, with measured effectiveness and usability tradeoffs. The article categorizes plain-text and clickable-link methods, notes accessibility considerations, and emphasizes combining techniques while recognizing that no single method is perfectly secure. It also describes a methodology based on honeypot data to gauge which techniques survive real-world harvesting.