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Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Through Facebook or Twitter?

Look at the very end of https://medium.com/@Medium/login-faq-27a103f5b914

While strictly speaking I do have both Twitter and Facebook accounts, I don't associate them with any other website. I never, ever press the "Like" button on anyone's site; if I want to share a page on Facebook, I post its link on my wall.

This is largely because I do not want to be tracked, and that I am working hard to defeat analytics. I regard both web and mobile analytics as profound invasions of my privacy.

I don't have any problem at all with Medium or anyone else analyzing their own web server logs. What I don't want is for any one site to correllate my activities, with my activities at other sites.

I would be quite an active contributor to Medium discussions if I could register directly with Medium, without associating my Medium accounts with any other sites.

( 4 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by speedyapoc on Saturday February 14, 2015 @10:42PM (#9051706)
They probably want to associate content with actual people instead of screen names.
Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by MichaelCrawford on Sunday February 15, 2015 @02:54AM (#9052045)
I personally have no problem with using my real name, as I do here at HN.

However if I signed up with FB or Twitter, it would be far easier to automate the collection of my data.

Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by aethant on Saturday February 14, 2015 @10:04PM (#9051640)
I'm with you. I don't have either fb not Twitter, and I can't sign up for medium (or product hunt) without them. Lame.
Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by bgia on Saturday February 14, 2015 @10:17PM (#9051662)
I don't want to seem too suspicious, but does it have something to do with Medium having been created by Evan Williams, former CEO of Twitter?