For years, we have recommended that you never leave your email address lying around on the Internet. Indeed, the risk of leaving your email address in plain text on forums or social networks is that it will be recovered by robots to feed databases and then used in vast email spam campaigns.
However, sometimes it may be necessary to share your e-mail address. Know that there is a fairly effective solution that will allow you to do this, while avoiding email harvesting robots: scr.im.
Use scr.im to share your email address on the web
scr.im is a free service where you can generate a link to a web page instead of your email address.
By clicking on it, people who want to retrieve your address will have to carry out a small test to show that they are not robots before being able to access your email.
For example, here is the link you can use to retrieve my email address and send me a nice message: http://scr.im/36al !
To do the same with your email address, you must first go to the site scr.im..
Then enter your email address in the email field and you can customize a link to access it if you wish. Otherwise it will be generated automatically once you click on "Protect my email".
You can now use this link to share your email address online without fear of being spammed... The person who clicks on your link will have to prove that they are human before being able to access it!
Convenient, right? This solution allows you to increase security when sharing your email address on the web.
However, it is important to note that hiding your email address does not completely protect you from spam or other risks associated with posting your email address online. It is recommended that you be careful about what you post online and do not share your email address with people or sites you trust.
Article updated on January 11, 2023 by Byothe
