It's 2017, what's the easiest was to protect an email address on a website?

Question

After Googling various options, it appears the Javascript one might be the easiest for the average web designer.

It's described in a brief blurb at the bottom of the following page :

Website Creator | Avoiding Spam When Posting an Email Addr...

How reliable is this method in 2017?

I don't need full-proof, I just don't want to wind up with 100 spam emails a day within a week, which is what happens every time I don't take any steps to make it harder for the bots.

Teodor K · Accepted Answer

The easiest way to protect your email (either used within a mailto: link, or pasted on the page) from being collected or spammed by bots is to encode it.

So in the source code it is encoded, and on the page your users see it as it is:

There are many places to encode it, for example this one: Encode Email Address to HTML Entities

Nancy OShea · Answer

Do you want EASY or RELIABLE? EASY - don't publish your email address anywhere on the web. So called email obfuscation techniques are easily defeated by turning off JavaScript. Since spambots don't use JavaScript, the better programmed ones will penetrate obfuscation without much trouble.RELIABLE -- use a contact form with a server-side script like PHP. Ideally the script should conceal email address, thwart robot submissions and sanitize form data before it's processed.Nancy

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