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
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.
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
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.