# Hide email address from /about page

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-email-address-from-about-page/148433>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 18, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-email-address-from-about-page/148433 "2020-04-18T10:28:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-email-address-from-about-page/148433/4 "2020-04-19T04:16:19Z")

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@traceymoko: Thanks! Yep this solved the visible part of it at least, the email address is no longer displayed on the `/about` page.

Although when I `view source` in my browser, and look and the HTML given to the browser, it still has the current `contact email` address in the HTML inside a `<div class="hidden" id="data-preloaded" data-preloaded=...>` tag such as `\&quot;contact_email\&quot;:\&quot;currentadminemail@example.com\&quot;,`

A bit strange. And I guess that spambot scraping the pages are still going to get the email address exactly the same way.

I even tried changing the email address to a different one, but it does serve whatever the current email address is, i.e. it’s not a caching issue.

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