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[randomness]

A website that demands that I give them an email address or sign up with Facebook or some other social media account before I can even look at anything simply won't get my business.

At best, if I'm feeling cranky, I'll give them some fake address. But mostly I'll just close the window and move on.

This tactic must work for some viewers but I don't have to encourage it myself.

ETA: Deliberately not giving examples because I'm not going to give them the traffic.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I feel similarly about sites that won't allow me to view any content unless I disable my adblocker. No thank you I don't want your site's drive-by malware. (Forbes, I'm looking at you.) (http://www.networkworld.com/article/3021113/security/forbes-malware-ad-blocker-advertisements.html)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't even have an adblocker running and I get that notice. I think they're seeing ghostery installed and thinking it's an adblocker.

I manage to read Forbes articles anyway somehow. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing but I can nonetheless.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I ran into that with Forbes this week and decided I didn't want to read that article enough to be patronised by Forbes before I even got to it! I'm running Disconnect and Privacy Badger and there are things I disable them for but Forbes is not one of them.