On: Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups

[Gigachad]

The site owners don’t care. If something works on 99% of people and pushes away 1%, they will keep doing it.

[dsr_ → Gigachad]

I'm sure that's true.

But I am fairly sure we live in the world where when something works on 3% of the visitors and the previous thing works on 2.6%, the company does the new thing. That's nearly 20% growth!

Meanwhile, 97% reject their service.

[criddell → Gigachad]

Are you saying ransom sign-ups can convert 99% of a site’s visitors?

[Gigachad → criddell]

The actual numbers are made up, but the point is that more people are either signing up or ignoring, than people leaving the site.