Do you hide email addresses to “spam bots” on websites?

Question

Although there are still bots harvesting emails, I\'m wondering if you hide email addresses on websites. I know this was common practice a few years back, but it seems that

Answer 1

You can hide your email address and display it using JS. This isn't also foolproof but offers some protection.

Something like this should do the trick:

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// in JS
var parts = ['my', '.', 'email', '@', 'example', '.', 'com'];
var elems = document.getElementsByClassName('mail');
var len = elems.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    elems[i].href = 'mailto:' + parts.join('');
}