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You just need to read peoples experiences of Pinterest in this thread. My search results are better without images from Pinterest showing up.

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I understand the frustration with speed bumps but for the majority of people (US users at least) the signup nag is dismissible and for the rest of the world, it’s a simple speed bump which helps maintain the operation of the business and provides real value back to the end user.

I also have a Wikipedia account, a Stack Exchange account, a YouTube account, a HN account, and countless one-off forum accounts. This is just the reality of the modern web and per-user customization.

> provides real value back to the end user

I see this kind of PR/marketing speech in all of your comments on this article. Do you do that inteantionally or have you actually gottent used to talk that way?

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