AssholeDesign

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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Just kidding... (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out.

Then they pop one of those and lost me for ever!

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

for no reason beyond forced data collection

Meh. It's to prevent bots and spam also.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Bots can create accounts too. If it indeed was to prevent bots, they would just ask for a captcha test to continue browsing

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those. Both are only problems when they already have accounts.