cobweb 2026 editionI’m so sorry to inform you, news sites, but when you tell me it’s not a paywall but you won’t let me read the thing without entering my email address… it’s a paywall. I’m paying you with my personal contact information. Actually I’m not paying you, I generally just close the tab.
Nazo@cobweb Can't pretend it's free while gathering our personal info...
Yes an e-mail address is personal info. Darned identifying really...
(And inb4, yeah, we can use some disposable throwaway, but the news sites don't like that and try their best to block it. Almost as if it's not actually about stopping bots and etc as they claim. You know, bots that could just gather login tokens and use those.)