registration wall

  • accessibility
  • open-access
  • marketing
  • Like paywalls, but for registration.
  • demanding an account is made to access content when it is almost always unnecessary
  • used as a marketing strategy to get email addresses
  • or otherwise to gather details on your audience, a form of tracking/analytics
  • the worst (and annoyingly common) culprits offer the first paragraph or so of an article then block access to the rest
  • sometimes bypassable (e.g. disabling javascript or using an external proxy) but often not
  • probably wreaks havoc with screen readers too

Resources

Section titled “Resources”