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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    for no reason beyond forced data collection

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

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      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.

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

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

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        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.

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          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?

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            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.