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This is factually not true. You fill out a single form on their website and get it less than a week later:

There’s tons of anecdotes of people doing this very easily online. Good luck getting data this easily from any other major manufacturer

That counts as begging from my point of view.

> Good luck getting data this easily from any other major manufacturer

This is an industry-wide problem.

If that's begging then signing up for literally any website is begging the website for an account