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is anyone else tired of being asked to sign up for an account to use xyz website? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 110 points 2 months ago (12 children)

they ask me to make an account, I close the tab and go on to something else.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    when google asks me to prove i'm human, I go to DDG

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    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).

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