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Re:A digital skeleton key to access any website by icebraining on Saturday May 09, 2015 @05:47PM (#9517812)
Would the proposed system use shared accounts, or automated new account registration for the user?

If the former, I think the opt-in is a dead end. If the websites thought that was good for them, they'd enable anonymous use, and it even might be illegal for them to cooperate (e.g. they would be breaking COPPA by offering a way for under-13 to use the site without following the proper steps).

Re:A digital skeleton key to access any website by signaler on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:04PM (#9517870)
It would use both shared accounts, and auto registration, which depend on how complex the registration system is and what requirements it has. For example, on sites which have lots of traffic it is preferable to have a swarm of newly registered accounts arriving all the time because of unreliable users of the account deleting it, changing the password etc. On less traffic'd sites it would be preferable to have a few small accounts. I've observed this on bugmenot...