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title: Defend content with Scrape Shield
description: Protect content from scraping and hotlinking.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cf-twitter-card.png
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# Defend content with Scrape Shield

Scrape Shield is a collection of settings meant to protect your site's content.

## Email Address Obfuscation

[Email Address Obfuscation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/email-address-obfuscation/) uses JavaScript to encrypt addresses and prevents harvesting by spammers and bots while keeping addresses easy to read and use for human visitors.

## Hotlink Protection

[Hotlink Protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/hotlink-protection/) prevents your images from being used by other sites, which can reduce the bandwidth consumed by your origin server.

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