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by nkkollaw 3438 days ago
They probably think they have to give their email to see the site.

We are power users, a lot of people have no idea what they're doing on the web.

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Yes, I even think there's a large amount of users that, when shown a random popup "please enter your password to continue", would just enter the password they use for every service, making phishing quite trivial.
Definitely.