I wish these types of sites were not allowed on Hacker News. I'm not paying for every little news site I read on here (or the big ones). I usually click on the link, realize it's got this crap on it, and bail back out. I don't want to read it and would rather it didn't even show up.

For a while I had updated my CSS setup so that these sites would have a strike through on them and I'd go strait to the comments instead of trying to read the story.

You can use a service like Temp Mail[0]. It worked for me.

[0]: https://temp-mail.org/

Many sites do that nowadays. The Information seems to be pretty nice, but it's super expensive. At least to me.

Some disposable email sites are blocked on The Information's login wall, even blah@aol.com was rejected (which I found amusing).

But it's easy to think of a random email of letters and numbers, and no further validation is required.

It's a paid site.

It’s a pay site. Logging in gives the, a chance to upsell.

The Information isn't that random (as the name implies).

It's an attempt to create a high-value, investigative tech magazine. The paywall is rather strict and it seems to be aimed at the investor class, so I'm not entirely sure how well it's going because I'm not a subscriber, but I believe I've seen a few important stories that originated with them.