It’s very annoying that this site drops a big banner forcing you to create an account to read it. Who do they think they are that their written content is suppo

It’s very annoying that this site drops a big banner forcing you to create an account to read it. Who do they think they are that their written content is supposed to be so can’t-miss that I’m going to slap together yet another data breach liability-waiting-to-happen user account, let alone letting them track my personal data, just to read this. The arrogance and user hostility is severe. Of course they are allowed to try this, they don’t owe me anything at all, and they (rightly) are wanting to monetize the publication of content they spent time and money to produce. All that is irrelevant. They (and many other sites doing this) need a serious wake up call to be more self-aware that random long tail content on the internet is worth approximately zilch, and the cost of registering and giving you my data is way too high for something like this.