[ZoomerCretin]

> it's a power-play to make people create accounts and stay logged in so they can track you better

Github doesn't even serve ads. What exactly are you worried about? Your throwaway email being primary key #78,000,000 and having your visited repositories stored in another table?

[authorfly]

It's a change in direction, one by one these things change, one day, there are Ads, or your github repo search journey is being used to train the AI programmer to replace you in those very libraries and repos you develop expertise in.

There's no good to come of requiring people to log in for the consumer. Online Tracking is never good for the consumer.

[fph]

Yes. Microsoft is already siphoning data everywhere they can, why should I give them more?

Most people have their real name and e-mail there because they use it to sign code in trusted repositories, so it's easy to combine these data with other sources.

[jen20]

Microsoft serves ads though. I haven't looked through the terms and conditions, but I'd be amazed if it wasn't permitted for GitHub to give whatever they can glean from your data to their corporate overlord.

[eesmith]

Yes, they send personal data to Microsoft for advertising purposes. https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith...

> Affiliates: Personal Data may be shared with GitHub affiliates, including Microsoft, to facilitate customer service, marketing and advertising, order fulfillment, billing, technical support, and legal and compliance obligations. Our affiliates may only use the Personal Data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Statement.

[VancouverMan]

I've never had any success creating a GitHub account with a throwaway email address.

The last time I tried, I'm pretty sure the email address was rejected right away, and the account couldn't be created.

Not being able to reasonably create an account there is certainly annoying when it comes to performing simple searches.

It has also prevented me from submitting new bug reports and adding information to existing bug reports for a number of open source projects over the years.

I'm always disappointed when I see an open source project using GitHub, because it makes contributing to that project more or less impossible.

[encom]

I deleted my account and moved my stuff when Microsoft took it over, and never looked back. A project on Github is a project i will not interact with. People have very short memories.

[tourmalinetaco]

I’ve gotten by with AnonAddy, so you may have success there too (unless they’ve blocked the domain since).