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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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Just kidding... (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out.

Then they pop one of those and lost me for ever!

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We can't even browse products in some online shops anymore without a login. That's so infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I hope people going "Hell nah" will make them rethink or shut down

This is nothing new, and that won't happen, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

for no reason beyond forced data collection

Meh. It's to prevent bots and spam also.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Except the act of viewing the site is ingesting data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Bots can create accounts too. If it indeed was to prevent bots, they would just ask for a captcha test to continue browsing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those. Both are only problems when they already have accounts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those.

Because in order to get an account, you have to pass tests designed to tell if you're a bot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So you don't see. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

So you just want to be angry for no reason. Got it.