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"We decided to not put barriers between the user and the data"

Aside from requiring a login - Google login no less to see the job description.

Hi, OP here. Perhaps "minimal barriers" would have been more accurate. One of the problems we want to solve is the proliferation of bot traffic on job sites. Requiring a Google login is the simplest way to achieve this for the time being.

No everyone has a Google account. You'd think it'd be a pretty damn obvious factoid.

Sorry to pile on but, the google sign on also turned me away. I have a google account and usually use it to sign up for sites I'm interested in but when it's used to gate content that could be accessible without a login I just feel like my data is being harvested.

If you really want to keep the login then maybe a message like we won't spam email you unless asked and only want your to log in to protect against bots would help.

OP here. Appreciate the honesty. I actually agree - I think the same way and I'm realising now that we don't do a good enough job of communicating the need to the user. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

> If you really want to keep the login then maybe a message like we won't spam email you unless asked and only want your to log in to protect against bots would help.

Such messages are lies usually in my experience.

How else would you farm user data to be sold off later?

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