Does e-mail obfuscation really make automatic harvesting harder?

Question

Many users and forum programs in attempt to make automatic e-mail address harversting harder conseal them via obfuscation - @ is replaced with \"at\" and . is replaced with

Answer 1

I have a solution, well, more of a theory. Problem is, the bots parse the page. they can get the text. even if it's being put into the page in some sophisticated way through Javascript.

So, just you CSS3 pseudo element! it won't be a link, but your email will be visible, and will never be an actual text. something like this:

.email::after{ content:'myemail@gmail.com'; }

Again, it's a theory, I've no idea how far these evil people can go to get it, but I think this be pretty safe. (unless they parse the CSS files, which I don't think they do)