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Asking me to subscribe to get a download link, with the only way to avoid it being a link that doesn't look like a link seems evil to me. Please reconsider.
by an_ko 11y ago
Asking me to subscribe to get a download link, with the only way to avoid it being a link that doesn't look like a link seems evil to me. Please reconsider.
- brudgers 11y agoThere is a link to display the download links in small text under the subscribe. Calling a signup 'evil' is a bit over the top. People who don't spend their days on the web are less familiar with the less obvious ways of gleaning user data...e.g. current Google or Facebook logins, third party trackers, etc.
- pconner 11y ago> Calling a signup 'evil' is a bit over the top. On HackerNews, the word "evil" might as well mean "kind of annoying." Use Mailinator or a similar throwaway email service if you don't want to sign up.
- robhack 11y agoI'm sorry you feel this way, as brudgers wrote, there is still a small link at the bottom to download without subscribing. Getting some subscribers is very important to me because I make this tool in my free time, and the only way I can justify spending more time on it is if I have some users who care about the tool. If I shall burn in hell for this, then so be it.