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[โ€“] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

But just look around here for any time someone posts a link to a 404 media article and you get "Ugh. Fucking scammers want to rugpull and steal all my personal information" for... wanting ANY email to be used for a free account to just limit the impact of bot/ai scraping.

I don't want to create a fucking account on every single fucking website I enter to read a shit article about some random bullshit

That's just making the internet even shittier place than it already is. Telling your readers to eat a hatful because scrapers are not respecting robots.txt? Please step on lego

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

404 media doesn't make you create an account, they just send you a link to your email, but having to create a throwaway email every time so they can't track what I read is a hassle I just don't care enough for. I'll either skip the article or use a proxy.