I can't even get that far in trying to sign up for Claude. Years ago, I told Constant Contact's (a/k/a Constant Spammer) legal department to block all emails to "animats.com", which was an option hidden away in their terms of service.
Back then, they were just a spam service provider. Now, legit companies use them for "deliverability". Anthropic, which has some kind of co-marketing thing with Constant Contact, seems to use them for verification emails. Signup verification emails can't reach me. So I can't even start sign up.
I worked for a facebook ads agency a long time ago and I had to send facebook my id to be able to run ads on the platform and manage different accounts... I really hate that the internet is going this way, but also, what am I gonna do? not do my job cuz I don't want to share my id? not use Claude cuz I don't want to share my id? they're pretty valuable things, so I'm gonna give them my id if I need to. its just a crappy situation. Just gonna assume nothing is gonna come from it and keep going.
I think it's wild what tech companies think they should be entitled to
I have been trying to reactivate an old Facebook account to get access to marketplace, but Facebook wants me to give them a photo id. My username and password is not sufficient, or email 2fa or anything. They want a copy of my government id.
Hell no.
Same with this. Why should anyone give Anthropic this sort of info just to access their service. It's ridiculous
I can't even get that far in trying to sign up for Claude. Years ago, I told Constant Contact's (a/k/a Constant Spammer) legal department to block all emails to "animats.com", which was an option hidden away in their terms of service. Back then, they were just a spam service provider. Now, legit companies use them for "deliverability". Anthropic, which has some kind of co-marketing thing with Constant Contact, seems to use them for verification emails. Signup verification emails can't reach me. So I can't even start sign up.
Persona is not “sketchy” unless you are actively paranoid. It’s used by quite a few large entities around the web now.
It is sad that the web has become this but that’s a separate discussion.
I worked for a facebook ads agency a long time ago and I had to send facebook my id to be able to run ads on the platform and manage different accounts... I really hate that the internet is going this way, but also, what am I gonna do? not do my job cuz I don't want to share my id? not use Claude cuz I don't want to share my id? they're pretty valuable things, so I'm gonna give them my id if I need to. its just a crappy situation. Just gonna assume nothing is gonna come from it and keep going.
I like it. I always wondered what a website would look like that only allowed Americans to register. I'm speaking of Authentication of the person.
I think it's wild what tech companies think they should be entitled to
I have been trying to reactivate an old Facebook account to get access to marketplace, but Facebook wants me to give them a photo id. My username and password is not sufficient, or email 2fa or anything. They want a copy of my government id.
Hell no.
Same with this. Why should anyone give Anthropic this sort of info just to access their service. It's ridiculous
I never signed up for Anthropic for the telephone reason.
Instead, I bought Kagi and OpenRouter and use Claude through those.
And you are paying 20x more. Kind of hard to justify that for not giving a telephone number
Yes... God forbid I value my privacy more than my dollars...