No more required registration! Please! 

No more required registration! Please!

Wired News: What, Me Register?

I was just surfing to one of my favorite online papers and found that they require registration now. Although it's free, it's still a pain. I then found this Wired article which they discuss this issue.

Seems like it's a waste of time by the online newspapers since most people are just registering with fake information. And with services like mailinator and bugmenot, this is only going to get worse.

I do understand why it could benefit online sites by making it better for their advertisers. However, this assumes the information is correct.

There's got to be better way.

Perhaps a system that would allow readers to reduce the ads (at least the popups) if they provide one bit of generic profile info...