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Archive for April 10th, 2026

scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10

Cool: [Wayback/Archive] scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

Bumped into this via [Wayback/Archive] Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) / Twitter.

At the time of writing, it had an invalid TLS certificate, so you would get red warnings when accessing it over HTTPS.

Hopefully that has been fixed by now.

It’s not exactly security through obscurity, but it allows people to access your email after solving a captcha so it is not 100% secure but a lot more secure than otherwise.

I found it 5 years after mailhide got discontinued by Google. I used it on my [Wayback/Archive] Contact form through mailhide.recaptcha.net which Google slowly killed without me noticing likely because Google didn’t want to upgrade it from using reCAPTCHA v1 into v2 or v3.:

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