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I refuse to sign up for random sites, even if they're free. I don't need the extra email clutter, especially from the ones who sell their mailing lists to spammers.

I had an especially bad experience last year, getting suddenly bombarded with random spam. I am SURE it came from signing up for something, because there was so much of it all at once, like somebody had flipped a switch. And it was really obnoxious, like multiple ads for the exact same things coming from different email addresses. Took a long time to get that spigot turned off!

Since then, I have been EXTREMELY cautious about sign up screens. When I see something that says "sign up," I see one of these: 🛑!