just to get it out of the way: yes, i know i can use a spam email/phone number. yes, i know i can opt out of promotional emails/texts. that doesn't make it any less frustrating. i don't need a growing list of empty accounts for websites i only spend an hour (or less) browsing through. don't even get me started on restaurants that ask for your phone number when you scan their QR code...
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TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 115 pts · 3d
they ask me to make an account, I close the tab and go on to something else.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 3d
This. Also, when I use Firefox, uBlock Origin (or when I use Safari, Wipr2) usually blocks these prompts, so I don't see them as much. When I do see them, I just go elsewhere.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 3d
when google asks me to prove i'm human, I go to DDG
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2d
this is the exact reason I switched the default on my phone to ddg
it's usually slightly worse (which is shocking with how bad Google itself has gotten) but good enough. "don't annoy me" is my lowest baseline
halezinflames@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 2d
Try something like Degoog or Startpage, you might like them
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2d
thanks for the recc's!
halezinflames@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 2d
Of course, glad to help!
kettuli@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Hint: you can eliminate a step by not using Google’s products.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Waterfox has been working well for me so far
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
currently its immune to reddits login lag while in old reddit or it forces new reddit switch, its probably to obscure enough that reddit doesnt notice yet. but theres already work arounds , until they completely close old reddit.
73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 3d
Same, but I sometimes use BugMeNot.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
Me too.
Curiously, I'm not at all tired of websites that make me create an account to use them, probably because they're the fastest to get through of all websites.
As a side note, I've worked in B2C Smartphone Apps at one point, and in the customer acquisition pipeline forcing people to create an account in order for them to use your app (and should be the same for websites) is one of the best ways to lose a huge percentage of potential customers (depending on the situation, we're taking over 80% of people dropping at that point).
Malica@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d
This is the way
shads@leminal.space · 35 pts · 3d
It is a really good filter for me, any company that wants to harvest the bogus information I will use to access them had better do a good job of convincing me it's worth the effort.
I have a similar take on online stores wanting me to create a login to get a shipping cost, unless they are offering a truly unique item, or outrageously good price I just don't buy anything from them.
If we all had a similar standards these bits of UX fuckery would disappear over time, unfortunately most people don't even think about it.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2d
I'm definitely the same with online stores. I can go to the grocery store and buy shit without an account, wtf do i need one to buy online for? There's just about always another site that'll sell it to you without one.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 2d
The reason why is because google lets you sign in from their account, so they don't have to make a new account, just hit the share on the google thing.
No filling out forms then verifying email, which would severely lessen the number of people that would sign up.
When youtube tells me to verify my age, I ex out of youtube. Pretty convenient their protection of children yields them official receipt of commercially valuable information that they can make more money off of.
Flubo@feddit.org · 26 pts · 3d
Absolutely. I hate it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 20 pts · 2d
Only if I am simply trying to look at the site. It makes perfect sense that I would need an account to post, reply, vote, etc. Requiring a log in just to browse is ridiculous.
beolbee@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
tell that to tumblr and deviantart. you want to look around? too bad, sign up! such a pain in the ass.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 2d
I haven't been on DeviantArt in years, so if that changed I never noticed.
I do often browse Tumblr without being logged in, tho. It just has a banner asking you to login or sign up the entire time. Doesn't actually require doing so.
beolbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
this is what deviantart does:
as for tumblr, i'll get the same prompt after a certain point.
Ertain@feddit.online · 16 pts · 2d
Yeah, it's getting annoying. The website says the content is free? Then why do I need an account to access it? If it is free, then I should be able to view it or download it without any restrictions.
tigermountain@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2d
These are websites I immediately leave. The majority of these are set-up simply to get your contact information so they can market to you.
discoplasm@quokk.au · 15 pts · 3d
yes, especially when it seems like there isn't much reason for the website to even have accounts (other than blatant data harvesting i guess).
Rooster326@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3d
Yes our video game guide website that is just a text repo requires an account.
How else will we allow you to check a check box
The_v@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d
I am beyond sick of it. If they make me sign up for a bullshit account, they don't get my business.
A restaurant with a QR code instead of a menu, I walk out of. One that requires a kiosk or app to order, same thing.
I have a zero tolerance for marketing e-mails & text. I block/spam every single one.
I had a $2.13 medical lab bill last week that wanted me to make an account including jumping through hoops to prove my identity etc... to pay them! They got a check in the mail.
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 2d
Restaurant menus make sense. It's easier for them to maintain any changes and it's easier for you to get the order right. If it lets you pay, that's also easier and faster than being held up by a waiter who has no interest in getting you to leave the table.
I've never had to sign up for anything when using such a menu.
Buckshot@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2d
First (and last) time I ever used a QR code on the table. We walked in, sat ourselves at an empty table. No sign of any staff. Ordered ourselves via their QR code. It was self service drinks even. Literally the only thing the server did was carry a couple plates from the kitchen to our table then we never saw them again.
The order required prepayment and added 15% tip by default.
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
If they're doing the QR thing, at very least they should have a free and open wifi network, which they often don't.
bstix@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 1d
It's amazing how one sentence can change a first world problem to a third world problem.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 12 pts · 3d
no I just don't do it. because fuck em that's why
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2d
I find I am skipping more and more places. Even if I don't have to sign up for an account, I'm not doing the reject cookies bit any more either. I'm just skipping on by. I walked out of a QR code restaurant earlier today because it required a sign in to see the menu.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
Tired of that and tired of downloading a proprietary fucking app for everything.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2d
Yes. It's so bad that I usually skip/avoid/leave those sites unless it's absolutely necessary. Blog/news site? Fuck you I'm out. Pinterest is one of the worst offenders. I avoid it like the plague.
beolbee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
if pinterest has no haters, i'm dead.
jtrek@startrek.website · 11 pts · 2d
Many companies use workday for the job application process, which wants an account. Workday is a steaming pile of garbage.
MapleFantastic5738@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2d
I cannot stand how they operate over there. I currently have six different Workday accounts, for six different companies. With each, I've had to upload my resume and re-create my profile, filling in my experience, education, etc... because their parser blows.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Paychex sucks ass too. And bill.com same thing, had multiple accounts because they can't figure their shit out.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2d
The worst is when Workday parses your resume wrong and you know you're gonna have to make the same corrections on every site because God forbid they allow you to upload some different format that is easily machine readable.
jtrek@startrek.website · 2 pts · 2d
Workday also gets mad if your resume has "special characters" in it, like quotation marks. Why they can't sanitize input themselves, I don't know. Presumably incompetence.
WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 3d
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Probably a good time to plug bugmenot.com.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Almost useless. Now most sites send a magic login link to the email (which you can't read) and if the user accidentally used a mailinator public mailbox and you can get the link, the account is banned anyway
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2d
never encountered any working credentials from that site
aSaabD00d@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d
I actually successfully used it for zillow the other day just to find some info on a house near me.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d
Honestly I'd rather make an account than do this bullshit where you get a new confirmation email every time you log in.
mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
That is the laziest auth method I've seen. At least it's encrypted in transit though. I'll take that over the SMS, not-really-2fa crap that US banks refuse to give up though.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2d
Those "authenticator" apps work great, as long as you always have your phone on you. Proton Authenticator, Google Authenticator (don't use that), Microsoft whatever, etc.
mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
The banks have to offer it as an option though. A lot don't and opt instead for the least secure way to do it.
halezinflames@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 2d
And yet they throw shit if you even have dev mode or an unlocked bootloader at you
My bank locks me out of parts of my account if Developer Mode is on. Yet won't get rid of SMS 2FA.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 3 pts · 2d
So many fucking websites log you out after 30 days now so you end up doing that shit anyways, except it's two-factor instead. Even more infuriating when it's mobile application doing that.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
United Healthcare required me to do an email confirmation every time I filed a claim even when I was already logged in. Tell me that's not a dark pattern.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 3d
Yes
Rooster326@programming.dev · 8 pts · 3d
Yopmail let's you skip the making it part.
You just login to (business)@yopmail.com on yopmail. Then you reset the password for the same email. It's like using 8675309 as your "reward number".
Each of the junk emails is reusable just by entering the same email alias.
That said, I just do without most times
wedge@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 2d
A lot of the throwaway account services get domain blocked at registration unfortunately. There’s also a degree of risk if you’re using it for anything sensitive. But yeah - good resource regardless.
Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2d
Its like every website nowadays needs your every identifying information to even just browse their site.
timewarp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
I can't even read a lot of news lately cause first thing I'm presented with is a full screen notice demanding I click "agree" to some obscure legal agreement.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
I've been tired for at least the last decade.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 2d
I don't like signing in to random websites cause sometimes they make you agree to questionable TOS and Privacy Policies
chunes@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
I'm even more tired of being asked to sign up just to view a website. Never have, never will.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2d
Yep. If I have to create a new account somewhere in order to use something anymore I just do without. I have more accounts and subscriptions than I want already.
BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
I miss when bugmenot.com worked. I skipped over all those signups.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2d
Reader mode, that often works
If not, leave or do Apple “hide my email”, verify, kill the temp email acct.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Not a bit. I just go grab an email address at minuteinbox.com
Then they get to send garbage to an email address I'll never use again.
I also see no point in giving anyone a phone number. Not that it will do them any good since I block anything not in my contacts l list.
MapleFantastic5738@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
More and more, I'm finding that it isn't enough to just give one of my alias addresses. I'll make my account and then immediately end up locked out unless I give them my phone number (looking at you, Discord) or upload my ID/take some live selfies (looking at you, Slowly), or sometimes both (looking at you, LinkedIn).
I miss the days when I could just browse and use the internet anonymously
halezinflames@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 2d
Usually if it demands that I leave unless I actually want to make the account.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 3d
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/detail
treadful@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 3d
One of the cool ideas of "web3" is that your accounts are in the browser, not the sites. So you would have cryptographic keys that would act as your account across Web sites.
I wish the idea would gain traction beyond just cryptocurrency projects/dapps.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
Then that facilitates tracking and fingerprinting with the same account being used everywhere? Or I understand it wrong
treadful@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
You would be able to choose if you share that information. You can use separate keys for separate sites if you want. I'm not really sure how this idea would make the current situation any worse.
If anything, it's less PII than you would normally use to create accounts.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d
OK then that’s like passkeys it seems?
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Sounds a little too "one point of failure" for me
treadful@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 3d
Like everyone reusing their password everywhere? Or like passkeys? Or SSO? meh
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Yes. Hate it.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
I didn't sign up for accounts long before it was cool.
Drusas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 3d
I've been sick of this since it first became a thing.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
What's a spam phone number? Just giving someone else's phone number?
beolbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
no, but i've done that before. there are websites/apps where you can make a temporary number.
Damaskox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Especially on services or websites I think I will be using once in my life.
ProfoundBygbird@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3d
What about visiting IMDB while being signed into amazon and then being informed that you now have an account on IMDB and oh yeah now you're getting marketing emails...
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2d
IMDB asked me to log in the other day. Wtf? (I closed it.)
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
Absolutely. Especially when they start emailing you every day.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Oh, you mean the 'x out of the site request?'
AmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 3d
My internet pet peeve is being met with an ‘Accept Cookies’ splash page anytime going to a website.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2d
Use noscript.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Anyone use sites like bugmenot? Please post alternatives.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Very yes
No1@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2d
Well, I do have several proton mail accounts if I feel I have to. And an alternate phone number too.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
I just remember my mom's lessons from my youth and I am able to avoid most of the bullshit. The advice? "You've got the xyz website at home!".
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3d
eyup. tons of stuff should not need sign up and there should be more options to use another account.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 0 pts · 2d
You can thank AI for that. Sites are trying to prevent all their content from being scraped by AI, and requiring a login to even view anything is one way to do that.
spacegoat@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2d
Yes sign up for Medium to ready by essay about it