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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach(theintercept.com)

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ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
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Not everyone throws their E-Mail at every Text field they see.

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fritolay@lemmy.one
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Funny because of the “not a paywall” on the article which the intent is to force the user into providing their email address to read the entire article.

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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Idk, being that “that’s so they can sell your email,” I’m inclined to argue that it is a paywall, the currency is just “email” not “USD.”

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logging_strict@lemmy.ml
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The entire point of a web browser is to allow scum to:

  • endlessly throw loginwalls and paywalls at us

  • load dodgy third party sites libraries

  • insisting on kyc as an act to show and display continuous acts of compliance

So not surprising the linked site has either a login or paywall.

Forcing a phone number is kyc. kyc is obnoxious.

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