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Love the bait and switch where you are invited to upload an image, THEN asked to create an account and provide an e-mail.

No.

It you start out that manipulative, then I can't be bothered to engage.

If you require account creation, then be honest, and say so upfront.

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It is a SaaS project, and all SaaS projects require create an account.

It has been established that this is a standard pattern for most image processing services to prevent abuse though...

I completely understand that it might not be for you, but in business school we were taught that engagement metrics is key to growth, and account creation is a good indicator of engagement.

If your "established" practice is user hostile through psychological manipulation, you deserve to lose the engagement. Fuck your business school.

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