Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by bogomipz on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:11AM
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I have attempted to read two articles on your site. As I am a privacy-focused person the articles were of interest to me. Both times I haven't gotten past reading the opening sentences when an obnoxious pop-up appeared asking for my email address. It seems ironic that someone publishing articles on privacy advocacy would be so keen to collect my email address. This practice also creates a real miserable experience and I have simply closed the page immediately both times. If someone is interested in subscribing to your newsletter why not simply provide a link for them to do so at the end of an article?
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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by pferde on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:37AM
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Yes, asking for an e-mail for site-update-sending purposes is very sketchy. That's what RSS is for, just publish a feed like a good netizen.
And indeed, your site does have a RSS feed, so what's with the e-mail address collecting? Rude!
Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by alisonkisk on Saturday November 14, 2020 @09:10AM
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An email address is public information not private. You can have as many as you like for different purposes.
Email addresses are not public in general. They are not supplied to every site you visit automatically, and should not be manually supplied to every site you visit either. Whether it's a unique per-site address or not, it only makes sense to give it to people/organisations you want correspondence from. Therefore, sites that ask for it when you start reading an article seem really sketchy.