If you’ve ever had your e-mail address on a website then after a while you’ll notice a rather unwanted side effect: spam. Certain parties send spiders (programs which systematically search through websites collecting information) harvesting e-mail addresses to add to spam lists. If your website has been up a while and has a decent number of links in and out, then you’ll soon start receiving a lot of unwanted e-mails.

Cloaking is a method which displays your address correctly, so legitimate contacts can type it into an e-mail client, but the spiders are greeted by impenetrable garbage.

Using Web Email Cloaker couldn’t be much simpler. Run and type in an e-mail address and two cloaked versions, one simple cloak and one more advanced JavaScript cloak, are generated ready to be pasted straight into your code. Bingo, job done.

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