Show HN: Replace emails and phone numbers with <ob-fus-ca-ted>

Category: security

Tags: obfuscation, php, security, spam-protection, email-obfuscation, html, custom-elements

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

A PHP package that obfuscates emails and phone numbers in HTML, making them invisible to crawlers until user interaction. It uses custom elements and a shadow DOM to prevent JavaScript-enabled bots from harvesting data while remaining fully human-accessible.

Target audience: backend devs, web developers

Repository: https://github.com/hirasso/html-obfuscator · PHP · MIT · 5 stars

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