Show HN: Email encoder – protect your public emails from bots and crawlers

Re:Show HN: Email encoder – protect your public emails from ... by Nextgrid on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:09AM (#29850905)

Are bots actually crawling for email addresses? I've had my email public on various websites for years and have yet to receive any spam from that. On the other hand, when that email was leaked in a data breach the spam started immediately and continues to this day.

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Re:Show HN: Email encoder – protect your public emails from ... by voakbasda on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:10PM (#29855648)

I posted a “who wants to be hired” entry here on HN last week, using a one-off email from Firefox Relay. Within two days, I started receiving spam through it. So, yes, bots definitely still trawl the web to harvest email addresses.

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Re:Show HN: Email encoder – protect your public emails from ... by 3np on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:48AM (#29851649)

I guess it's a matter of chance (unless you have a spam filter that filters them from you?). It was only hours after an otherwise unused email made it into AUTHORS.md for a major project that it started receiving spam and it's been a steady stream since.

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