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.

Create an HTML form on your website into which visitors can input their email addresses. You can use a simple editor such as Notepad for this and type the HTML code directly into the PHP file.