For years, you've been advised never to leave your email address lying around on the internet. Indeed, the risk of leaving your address exposed on forums or social networks is that it will be harvested by bots to populate databases and then used for vast... spam campaigns.
However, sometimes it may be necessary to share your E-mail adress. 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 with complete peace of mind.
scr.im is a free service that generates a link to a protected page instead of your email address. When someone clicks on this link, they must complete a short reCAPTCHA test to prove they are human before accessing your email.
Here, for example, is the link you can use to retrieve my address and send me a nice message: http://scr.im/36al !
To create your own:
- Go to the website scr.im.
- Enter your email address in the field Email.
- Customize – or let it be automatically generated – your link alias, then click on Protect my email.
You then get a shortened URL that you can publish everywhere without fear: the person who clicks on it must first "show their credentials" before discovering your address.
The advantages of scr.im
scr.im stands out due to four key points:
- Protection against robots : reCAPTCHA blocks automatic extraction, the main source of spam lists.
- Express setup : it only takes a few seconds to generate the link, no registration is required.
- Full compatibility : the verification page works equally well on computer and mobile.
- Completely free : no paid options or hidden features.
A word of caution
Hiding your address doesn't protect you completely: a malicious user could still manually copy and distribute it. Therefore, remain vigilant about what you publish and where you publish it, and don't hesitate to use a dedicated email address for your public communications.
Convenient, right? scr.im Adds a simple yet effective barrier between your inbox and web crawlers. Keep this handy for all your future online publications!
