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!

  • SusagaEnglish
    871·
    7 months ago

    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!

      • SharkAttak@kbin.social
        8·
        7 months ago

        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.

      • SusagaEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        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.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        7 months ago

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

          • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
            44·
            7 months ago

            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?

      • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        61·
        7 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