While the process is tedious, encrypting your email address in the HTML code frustrates some of the less sophisticated harvesting programs while giving your human visitors easy access to your inbox.

Creating junk addresses to hand over to websites or apps that force you to register is also a great way to keep your personal email address out of the hands of marketers. Here’s how to get started.

How to Obfuscate HTML. To obfuscate an HTML code page means to encrypt or hide strings of characters which are likely email addresses and other source code within the code page.

Want to avoid spam and the risks of your email address falling into the wrong hands? Keep your email address private with Apple's Hide My Email feature.