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Luckily this one accepts burner emails just fine, without any intrusive other data collection (name, etc)

That's a useful website, but holy shit it is utterly unusable without an adblocker.

I mean, you should have an adblocker on every device anyway. On my phone I use https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html (No need to download the app, just select "Configure AdGuard DNS manually"). As a bonus, on android, it blocks ads in shitty mobile games too.

A totally reasonable response to a minor inconvenience.

me reading your comment: yeah, also hated that, yes, yes, yes

your last four words: nope, hard no, no, we are not friends

The level of entitlement HN posters have these days is insane. They're giving you free compute resources on the order of an entire $800 GPU. If you don't like it, run the damn thing yourself!

UX designers doing their job and programmers protecting their free product from being abused are not the people deserving abuse here.