: Publicly displayed e-mail address: Is it safe from spam-bots when dynamically generated? I am currently in the process of making myself an employment website; the entire site uses a client-side

@Nimeshi995

Having any email address exposed you run the risk of having the spam bots collecting that email address, there are methods that I'll list that can help you but its just like a car alarm, a car alarm can help prevent your car being stolen but it doesn't necessary mean it can't. Bots are forever becoming more complex and many are rendering pages just like real viewers so its impossible for certain to hide your email address, however you can block the majority of them.

Methods:


Use a image this will block 99.9% of bots, if not 100% but of course people can't click or copy and paste.
Use a JavaScript to hide email address blocks a lot but not all if they are rendering the pages.
Most likely the best method but never used it, searched for it and so on, but the best method would be to fetch the email address when a user clicks and it asks for a captcha code, but this has the downside of annoying your audience.
Yes, you don't want to hear it but there's many reasons why people use forms and this is one of the highest reasons, without a form you run the risk of your email address being collected, none of my methods and no methods completely stop spammers.

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