About ChatGPT defeating email address obfuscation on websites.
Has this happened?
Yes 77 (64%)Not sure 33 (28%)No 10 (8%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About ChatGPT defeating email address obfuscation on websites.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Impressive. Even my CSS-based obfuscation[1] is no match for ChatGPT. Though it is funny trying to get it to explain how it was able to deobfuscate the email address. It works only if I give it the full HTML of my website and I think it is able to do so from the context in the website which is fairly impressive. Would be more impressed if it was able to explain how it figured it out though.
https://chat.openai.com/share/96552e11-6c05-4ec0-b3d8-5d4629...
1 - https://picheta.me