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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by pyr0hu on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:54AM (#18420805)
> once you download it you may have to log in, remember or set a password, deal with 2FA, click a verification email, etc. .

like you don't have to do those on a website?

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by azeotropic on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:16AM (#18420865)
Ugh. Yes, but there are many fewer sites that actually need this than those that deploy it just so they can harvest emails.

The only sites that need this are those where users are adding content and the site is moderated, and then login should only be required for moderated actions.

So Yelp should require a login to leave a review, but not to read one.

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