"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

I get a fair amount of newsletters online throughout the week. They are very informative, free and provide information about things I am interested in, computers, home entertainment, and so on.

To get most of the quality newsletters you are required to register, then verify by clicking on a verification email sent to you by the originator. This I can understand to prevent abuse and prove the fact you really did ask to subscribe and that someone else didn’t misuse your email address.

What I find more and more though as these newsletters arrive, you get a few lines and then have to click the title, or ‘read more’ to obtain the rest of the article. In some cases you have to click to read any of it.

When you click read more, a box pops up, or another page saying “free registration required,” with a place for you to input your user name and password, if you have already registered. If the article proves to be of no interest, you go back to the emailed newsletter and go through the whole process again if you select another article.

I am not in favour of letting the browser remember passwords, for then they are practically available to anyone, so what’s the use of having a password. And in a lot of cases the browser doesn’t remember the whole thing anyway. I use KeePass to manage passwords, but that is a lot of clicking and re-clicking to get to an article you don’t want to read.

I am finding it takes more time to sign in and re-sign in over and over than it does to read the entire newsletter. Are the big names doing this to chase us away?

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