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Conceal your email address from bots with HideText



Sometimes you want humans to be able to read some information -- like your email address, for example -- while disguising it from bots that might be automatically collecting it. One way to do it is by displaying the info as an image, instead of as text, like Facebook does with email addresses. HideText gives you a quick way to do that.

HideText has two modes for converting text to images. One is a plain text box, with a choice of only two fonts and a few sizes, but you can enter whatever text you want, and it will get the job done. The other is an email-specific mode that includes your provider's logo as part of the image. It works with most major email services, like Gmail, Yahoo, and MSN. Either way you use it, you end up with your text concealed from Googlebots and things that could potentially be more malicious, like spammers.
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