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<p>A tendency that has been greatly bothering me recently regarding modern
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systems - on the web, desktop applications, OSs or otherwise - is the increasing
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number of them that require new users to register an account for their usage.
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The most recent case was when I was trying to install Windows 10 in a virtual
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machine, and in order to finish the post-install configuration I had to log into
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or create a Microsoft account. There was no option to skip this step available
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on-screen. I tried using my student Microsoft account, but this was rejected...
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I don't know why. So ultimately, I got fed up and decided to ditch the whole
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thing.</p>
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<p>This is what bothers me: why do I need an account to use an operating system?
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I understand having the option available in later configuration, or having a
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button clearly visible that allows me to skip this step, but to require it I
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find is quite ridiculous. Perhaps it's just that I haven't been using any of
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these kinds of technologies for years, and therefore it's more shocking to me,
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but I find it completely inexcusable to require me to create a whole new account
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just to use one crappy bit of software, which by its very nature does not
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inherently require the usage of a networked account. Perhaps if we were talking
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about a social media site, or cloud hosting. But not for literally every single
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application.</p>
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<p>Some believe that the solution to this is the use of third-party accounts
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(e.g. when you sign into a website using your Google account, even though the
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website doesn't belong to Google) but I dislike the idea that the access to all
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my online information can be accessed by a single company like that. It provides
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little security, and means that all it takes is for one account to be hacked for
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all of them to be hacked. This creates a huge security risk that I am not
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willing to take, as well as issues of privacy concerns that may arise as well.
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As such, this does not seem to be an acceptable solution to me either.</p>
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<p>Getting more to the point, I don't get why I need accounts for these things,
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when often times I'm only going to be using these programs for a couple of
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things and then I'll never touch them again. I find it ridiculous that these
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developers (or more likely, their bosses) think I want to make a silly account
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on their website just to receive more spam in my e-mail to delete.</p>
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<p>Sometimes these companies think that by advertising that with this account or
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this software I can install a bunch of other crappy software of theirs, that
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this will somehow make me more inclined to create an account with them or
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install their product... It doesn't. Any option that requires for me to install
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and use more things than I need is automatically discarded for me (as anyone who
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has read my post on pre-installed applications<sup><a href="#r1">[1]</a></sup>
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would know).</p>
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<p>I realize this post really hasn't contributed much useful information, I just
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needed a place to rant about something stupid.</p>
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<ol class="refs" >
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<li id="r1" >
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<a href="/blog/2019-07-26-the-cancer-which-is-pre-installed-applications.html" >
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"The Cancer which is Pre-Installed Applications" on The Music in
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Noise Blog
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</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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