[3c6bYDXLMj]

Yeah. This is very “using a saw to cut a piece of steak” meme. I feel like most obfuscations can already be thwarted anyway. At this point I just see it as some cargo culting thing that nerds do in their hacker news profiles.

[thaumasiotes]

People have noted for many years now that getting your email address scraped isn't a thing.

I assume it used to be a thing, and the cost of doing a zero-effort obfuscation is zero, so almost nobody stops.

[junon]

My address 100% gets scraped via GitHub, at the very least.

[BlueTemplar]

Doesn't GitHub have protections against that ? Or does it still work as long as the bot signs up for an account ?

[duskwuff]

Git internally identifies authors by email addresses. Github doesn't display the addresses in the web UI, but they're still present in the repository and can be extracted. Github can't prevent this because the author is part of the identity of the commit -- rewriting it would change commit IDs.