💭 Email Address Obfuscation · Cloudflare Web Application Firewal...
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!https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/

Date: July 4, 2024

Email Address Obfuscation
 By enabling Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation, email addresses on your web page will be hidden from bots, while keeping them visible to humans. In fact, there are no visible changes to your webs...
 Cloudflare Docs · developers.cloudflare.com [1]

I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog posts, and I wondered what the heck ? I didn't put it there. Turns out that cloudflare put it there from pages to safely serve email addresses for me.

inspecting the page without js running we can see that the mailto email is swapped out for _email protected_. Neat feature.

``` bash
❯ curl --silent https://waylonwalker.com/diskcache-as-debounce/ | grep email
[email protected] [2]

```

Looking deeper into this article it looks like this feature comes from Scrape Shield and enabling Email Address Obfuscation.

!!! note

 This post is a thought [3]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [4]

References:
[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/
[2]: /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4ccc1c8c8cbe4d3c5ddc8cbcad3c5c8cfc1d68ac7cbc9
[3]: /thoughts/
[4]: /tags/thoughts/