Why do they want me to enter my email address to continue reading? I had to delete 3 HTML nodes to get past their "drawbridge"... Here's the gif for anyone who

Why do they want me to enter my email address to continue reading? I had to delete 3 HTML nodes to get past their "drawbridge"... Here's the gif for anyone who doesn't want to deal with the (totally useless) article: https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2015/08/chargersnake.gif https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2015/0...