The fuck off contact page

A lot of comments recommend just putting an email on the contact page, which I agree is nice.

Related question: do good, privacy-preserving, cookie-less alternatives to reCAPTCHA exist?

For email, I've had some luck just modifying the page with JS that's either indirect or obfuscated enough that the address can't be pulled directly from it - e.g. "var email" is the address encrypted with a fixed key, the JS decrypts it and then alters the HTML.

It can obviously be bypassed by using a JS runner, but it seems to be enough of a hurdle that few spammers bother. "You don't have to outrun the bear", as it were.

Nice. It's a pretty low-traffic site, so something that doesn't require an external service but is still capable enough to defeat 90% of spammers sounds like a good compromise. I imagine drawing the email address to a canvas instead of a textual HTML element could be more effective, alas not accessible.

I have my email in plain text on every page of my site. I get about 1 spam per day that I see in my inbox on Gmail. I suppose Gmail filters even more silently. It's been working fine for over a decade. Is there some scale of site popularity where it becomes a problem?

> do good, privacy-preserving, cookie-less alternatives to reCAPTCHA exist

I implement a custom proof-of-work algo in JS.

Not very eco-friendly, but then again captchas are not disabled-people-friendly, so pick your poison I guess.