Login to Post Comments Suck

Posted by JD 01/14/2011 at 22:00

You visit a web site and like the article enough to want to post a comment … of some kind. Then the website has a block that prevents you from posting. Comment-blocking. They do this by:

  • login required or
  • 3rd party service for comments
  • non-working captcha
  • requiring javascript for commenting of any kind (usually for anti-privacy domains like google.com)

Boo. The internet should be anonymous, if you want it that way. Sometimes you just want to say something without the repercussions to other areas of your life.

If I were not afraid of the repercussions, I’d setup a database of logins to websites that you could use to post with. If I had friends in foreign countries with servers, we could setup a loose federation.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to choose against privacy?

BTW, you can post on-topic comments here without a login.

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