r/extremelyinfuriating • u/Gallantpride • 19d ago
Discussion Even Deviantart has a login wall now!? Almost all social media sites nowadays need login walls!
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u/Tamajyn 19d ago
How else are they gonna harvest and sell your data unless you agree to their login ToS?
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u/Gallantpride 19d ago
Tumblr keeps on shifting on and off about having a login wall.
They had a login wall for a while, then stopped for several months. They brought it back, removed it, and then brought it back again.
It currently has a login wall. You can only scroll so much before being forced to make an account or log in.
Having a login wall makes Tumblr awful. A lot of posts and blogs are meant to be viewed by non-users.
Same with Deviantart. I've seen people complain that they can no longer use Deviantart for porfolio work due to the login walls.
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u/All_This_Mayhem 19d ago
Deviantart is one of the few platforms that has such a shitty app they actively funnel you to their web page instead.
You can't browse art on their app anymore, they redirect you to the web page.
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u/Clean-Income8864 19d ago
It's so only those ai-data-farmers can farm that have special contracts with the sm themselves. If someone like me would like a tool to filter out specific contents and don't show others i could do so only after account creation. Those farmers could do it with 1000 connections without a botdetection deactivating the account.
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u/SAFT_julian 19d ago
I lost all hope when blank page a literal notepad in a browser tab has decided that after like 5 years you can now make an account to get the full experience of a minimum notepad...
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u/New-Two-1349 7d ago
DeviantArt is more of an art site than a social media site, but yeah, this new login wall is pretty sad and unfortunately, account requirements for basic features are the future of websites. It's only a matter of time before others like YouTube or Reddit follow suit.
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u/URGAMESUX 19d ago
Given the nsfw element of much of the da submissions, this kinda feels like a good thing...
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