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Sending spam is a means; the goal is to have people click on ads, buy stuff, download malware, etc.

The distribution of the probability that users click an ad is highly skewed. I suspect that it has probabilities close to zero for people who use "these 'obfuscated' e-mails".

If that is the case, spamming those users does not make economical sense.



Sure, it's a means.

So is scraping - a means to sell big lists of e-mail addresses to people who buy them for many thousands of dollars, with little regard to where they came from - only that they receive e-mail.




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