this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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Hehe, denial of service for no reason beyond forced data collection is so quirky! Yeah, capitalism is squeezing the life out of modern culture, but in a fun way!
We can't even browse products in some online shops anymore without a login. That's so infuriating.
What?! Some sites have been going the route of buying without an account for some time now.. I hope people going "Hell nah" will make them rethink or shut down.
This is nothing new, and that won't happen, unfortunately.
Meh. It's to prevent bots and spam also.
If this sort of thing only popped up when posting comments, then sure. If it's to VIEW the damn site, that will only affect actual people.
Except the act of viewing the site is ingesting data.
Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those. Both are only problems when they already have accounts.
Because in order to get an account, you have to pass tests designed to tell if you're a bot.
So people that don't want accounts should be forced to get an account because they might be a bot (that, notably, can't do anything without an account) so they can be filtered out and denied an account that they didn't want in the first place? Do you really not see the issue with what you're saying?
I don't know where you got the idea that I have no issue with this. I'm just saying it's not purely malicious as you said.
So you don't see. Got it.
So you just want to be angry for no reason. Got it.
Bots can create accounts too. If it indeed was to prevent bots, they would just ask for a captcha test to continue browsing