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Earbanean

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#3253819 27-Jun-2024 13:48

What's the downside of actually just logging in? An account doesn't need any personal information and you could user a 'burner' email address if you were really worried.

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#3253823 27-Jun-2024 13:52

Earbanean:

An account doesn't need any personal information

First name, last name, email address, country, postcode, date of birth and gender are all required fields.

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#3253825 27-Jun-2024 13:57

Behodar:

Earbanean:

An account doesn't need any personal information

First name, last name, email address, country, postcode, date of birth and gender are all required fields.

But none of them actually need to be true. i.e. they don't validate that info in any way.

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#3253835 27-Jun-2024 14:21

Behodar:

Earbanean:

An account doesn't need any personal information

First name, last name, email address, country, postcode, date of birth and gender are all required fields.

Just fill it with random crap. None of it is needed and the more people that lie the less valuable their data harvesting is.

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#3253859 27-Jun-2024 15:37

It annoys me that as a hard copy subscriber of The Post newspaper, Stuff have chosen subscriber logins to be by email address, rather than subscriber number. I mean if you get a physical paper delivered to a household, it's going to be read by more than one person. Should be true of an online subscription as well. As it is, my email address is tied to the subscription, so if my wife logins in, it then doesn't allow access to paywalled items. I complained to them about the error of their ways and they did at least respond, but didn't agree of course 😬

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#3254693 30-Jun-2024 13:53

I haven't been asked to log in on either desktop or mobile yet.

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#3255985 3-Jul-2024 13:41

Anyone else getting an error when trying to log in? I got the same error a couple of days ago then again today, I haven't managed to log in yet. I haven't been trying very hard. This is Chrome on Android. I got rid of the app because the new version was terrible, I couldn't read anything.

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#3257628 8-Jul-2024 23:18

About the last week I haven’t been able to access the hard word or daily quizzes.
Can read news fine but going into either of those I just get a blank page.
This is on iOS with everything updated.

Edit: just as I was typing this I gave it another go and now get an error message when trying to get into either of them. 🤪
I don’t get prompted to sign in or create an account.

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#3257651 9-Jul-2024 08:37

They have been trialing this for some time. Random articles would have the 'login'-wall while others didn't. I did wonder if they'd eventually move to requiring it for everything.

Firefox here so no simply using Firefox is not a solution. Although to be fair I've not seen this on Firefox mobile...yet.

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