"Okay, well, you got me. I guess I'll dig out my wallet."

~ No one, ever

Seriously, who is this shit even for? A thousand miles of red tape to keep people off your site without paying and all you've really done is alienate your paid readership.

That figure comes via the Alliance for Audited Media, and it reveals that The Washington Post’s average paid daily circulation has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in 55 years. To put that in perspective: 97,000 is the sort of figure you’d expect to see from a mid-size regional paper like The Minnesota Star Tribune or The Seattle Times. Not from a globally recognized newsroom with multiple Pulitzers to its name.

I'll repost the important part because Forbes is, once again, blowing up my screen with random bullshit that's evaded my popup blocker.

Putting up with any bullshit from corpos isnt compromise. You show weakness, you get attacked. It's not a complicated idea.

Honestly after one or two hurdles like that, I expect it to be a sunk-cost trap.

Where they make you jump through the hoops and then charge you to not feel like you wasted your time jumping through hoops.

Although one job site did allow me to download the new CV they made me before trying to charge me for an account.

But I bet it's full of white text and creepy metadata (i.e. watermarks) so probably I will copy the design and make it from scratch myself.

If you do that, go straight to hell. No questions.