{"id":3713,"date":"2025-01-23T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:36:58","slug":"wordpress-blogs-and-blogs-in-general-stop-asking-for-my-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wordpress-blogs-and-blogs-in-general-stop-asking-for-my-email\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Blogs (and blogs in general): Stop asking for my Email."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of netizens nowadays consider their email more private than they may in the past. Email is niche social networking, more a place for business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t consider my email address sacred, and do hand it out often, but I don&#8217;t like handing it out to comment boxes. Weird boundaries yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Handing out your email lets sites notify you of replies. I mean, maybe you don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can also be used as anti-spam. I mean, its not hard to invent a fake address. I use a captcha to prevent spam here anyway. I also invent fake email addresses myself as a human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its the default option in WordPress, to ask for users emails. But I turned it off, or made it optional. Leave a comment if i forgot!!! in the mean time Consider making emails optional for yourselves, webmasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of netizens nowadays consider their email more private than they may in the past. Email is niche social networking, more a place for business. I don&#8217;t consider my email address sacred, and do hand it out often, but I don&#8217;t like handing it out to comment boxes. Weird boundaries yeah. Handing out your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"full_width_featured_image":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":99,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"kind-article","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"GaryStu","author_link":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/author\/xxxgarystuxxx\/"},"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garystu.art\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}