[endgame]

I loaded the page, started reading and the ENTIRE PAGE scrolled away as a giant "Lessons In Startups" mail-signup-modal rolled in from above. GO AWAY YOU SCOURGE OF THE INTERNET.

[TeMPOraL]

I don't know if anyone ever reads those e-mail addresses or if they just go to a big database, but this time it was enough and instead of an e-mail, I wrote a very short opinion piece on this practice of modern beggary.

[endgame]

Given the dark patterns on some of those signup forms, it's more like UI mugging than begging. Do you have a link to the opinion piece?

[TeMPOraL]

I don't; it was contained entirely in the e-mail address I submitted in the form, and contained a single expletive.