Obfuscating email address behind buttons

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Hi all,

Conscious that I want to be obfuscating email addresses, wherever possible, to avoid bots.

I know RW has a “protect email address” setting, but does that obfuscate the address anywhere other than in the Footer?

I have the @joeworkman Call-to-Action stack, which I currently use Sweet Button on, but I don’t know whether setting the Link to a mailto: obfuscates it, or not. I’ve used Joe’s online tool to create the HTML, which works great in a Text stack, but I can’t use that in the Link field (be gentle, I’m a beginner at this). There’s also a javascript version, but I have no idea what to do with that…

Is it possible to have the button obfuscate the email address? Am I trying to do something that is already designed in?

On a related note, can I somehow obfuscate a Tel: phone number?

TIA,

Adam.

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There might be other solutions available, but this one is quick and easy https://stacks4stacks.com/touchbase/

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https://www.doobox.co.uk/stacks_store/demos/obscureemail.html

This is what I use. Works well as I don’t get spam with this.

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This may help. https://www.weavers.space/answers/email-obfuscation

You can search my entire knowledge base via the help widget at the bottom of my website.

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I think the OP wants to obscure the email address in a button link, as well as a telephone number.

They’re already using @joeworkman’s

The option that @NeilUK offered seems to do both.

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Thanks all,

@NeilUK’s suggestion seems to fulfil my needs pretty well. Not quite as attractive as @joeworkman’s Sweet Button, but it’s working.

Perhaps when Joe gets some downtime (:joy:) he can look at adding similar functionality to Sweet Button, so we can get the best of both worlds…

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You just need to take the link part of the HTML from my tool and put it inside sweet button. It’s the part that is inside the href attribute.

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Thanks Joe. I’m away for a few days, but will give it a try when I’m back. Love Sweet Button.

Is there a way to obfuscate a phone number?

Rgds,

Adam.

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