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R00k
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:00 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


As a poll. I know this may not be the most representative audience, since everybody here is pretty tech-savvy, but I wanted to get an idea of how people react to online news sites that require registration.

I didn't necessarily want to attach a real poll to this, since there are a lot of possible answers.

So if you've been visiting a news site off and on for quite a while, and they decided to start requiring registration (zip code, age and gender plus email address) in order to read stories - what do you do? Stop visiting? Sign up and continue visiting? Sign up with a fake email address and/or fake information? Use BugMeNot and forget about it?

Our company is going to begin requiring registration by the end of this month, and I'm curious.
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Dave
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I stop visiting.. I don't give my phone number at bestbuy either.

Oh, and with the school online paper I just disable javascript to get around the nag
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4days
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:07 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


use junk data and a hotmail addy to create an account - and unless there's some valid reason for registering (e.g. being able to comment on articles), will create a handful of accounts for bugmenot.
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bitWISE
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If there is an article that doesn't require a sign-in somewhere else I will just read it. If not and the article isn't important to me I just ignore the whole issue. If I actually care to read it I'll use bugmenot.
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horton
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I think Ive only registered for one site http://www.evo.co.uk the only reason being that I get to read articles from the magazine i used to read in UK and that now if i wanted to buy in Japan I would have to pay about 3 times the UK price

I certainly wouldnt register for something that another site offers without me handing over my details.

I have the spare e-mail accts, i just cant be fucked with the extra bullshit.
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eepberries
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If I can't find an account on bugmenot, I don't bother
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Deathshroud
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:46 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


eepberries wrote:
If I can't find an account on bugmenot, I don't bother
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PhoeniX
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 09:54 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Handy extension for firefox: Bugmenot extension

right click a login prompt > login with bugmenot.
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ppp
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 10:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


go elsewhere
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Canis
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 10:18 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I use generic information to get behind all that info....Joe Blow who lives in San Francisco with one of the SF zip codes and an AOL account of JB@aol.com. Some variation of this usually gets me by. Otherwise, I have a BS yahoo email account where I send all the registration information for sites I dont find important.
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Fender
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 11:55 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I stop visiting. If I really like the site, I might bother with bugmenot, but more often than not, I simply stop visiting.
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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 03:37 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


PhoeniX wrote:
Handy extension for firefox: Bugmenot extension

right click a login prompt > login with bugmenot.


reminds me of the javascript bookmarklet i made for opera ages ago.
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 08:19 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


netvibes or newshutch
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PostPosted: 09-05-2006 08:19 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


WTF... News sites???????

RSS, idiots.



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