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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]

Facebook has invested a lot into becoming a sort of "driver's license for the web" or single unifying ID. And yes, there are lots of sheep who will willingly log in to random stuff with Facebook. It's one reason (among many) that I dislike Facebook.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Btw happy birthday ;)

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

Yep, this.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't jump through hoops to view stuff, that's just ridiculous. On the other hand, I don't run adblockers, because that's the coin moderate websites use to fund themselves, and I won't take that away from them. (I'm on Macs, so malware, usually not an issue.)

[fin9901.livejournal.com]

Agreed one hundred thousand percent.

Facebook in particular can go to hell and die.