Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups

Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by Gigachad on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:55PM (#36964980)

The site owners don’t care. If something works on 99% of people and pushes away 1%, they will keep doing it.

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Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by dsr_ on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:14PM (#36965141)

I'm sure that's true.

But I am fairly sure we live in the world where when something works on 3% of the visitors and the previous thing works on 2.6%, the company does the new thing. That's nearly 20% growth!

Meanwhile, 97% reject their service.

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Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by criddell on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:51PM (#36965480)

Are you saying ransom sign-ups can convert 99% of a site’s visitors?

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Re:Dear Websites, Stop Asking for Ransom Sign-Ups by Gigachad on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:59PM (#36965561)

The actual numbers are made up, but the point is that more people are either signing up or ignoring, than people leaving the site.

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