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[webman]

Hi,

I’m new here and just signed up for an account - well, I hit the FREE button and some dashboard has launched with a thousand and one options I know virtually nothing about!

Basically I’m running a small non-profit web site and wanted to obscure email addresses (so they can’t be scraped) - an advisor at our hosting (Clook) said to look at Cloudflare. So here I am.

But I have no idea what Cloudflare will actually do if I add our website. I want to obfuscatte email addresses, and would like to know how to do that. But maybe there are other protections which are automatically triggered when I add outr site here?

Sorry, I’m not very technical - I don’t even know what a CDN is! (though apparently the web says cloudflare is a ‘CDN’. Right…

Any simple guidance , especially about email obfuscation, would be welcome.

Many thanks
Hugh

[cloonan]

@webman

what Cloudflare will actually do

Similar question came up here, Why should we use Cloudflare? - #3 by cloonan

@webman

CDN

Content Delivery Network, good high level article here, https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/

@webman

other protections

The WAF, web application firewall is really nice to protect your site from attacks. Explained here, https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/web-application-firewall-waf/

@webman

email obfuscation

Explanation here, What is Email Address Obfuscation? · Cloudflare Support docs.

Enable it here
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/content-protection

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