Two web sites I've found particularly helpful in empowering me to avoid having to give my email to certain web sites. They are mailinator.com and bugmenot.com.
The later, bugmenot.com is a site that has a database of userids/passwords for common sites on the internet. So if you are going to a site and it asks you to log-in in order to access content, you can check on bugmenot and usually find an id/password to use (so you don't have to register with your own email address).
But there are still a number of sites that bugmenot doesn't have a userid for. In those situations, turn to mailinator. Despite sounding like a slang name for a virus that wipes out your inbox, mailinator is actually one of the good guys. When you need to register for a site you can use [whateveryouwanthere]@mailinator.com. Going to mailinator.com, you type in the email address you used and you can view any messages that have been received. This allows you to confirm registration without having to expose your personal email.
So the next time you go to a site that you would rather not give your email address to... give bugmenot and mailinator a try.
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