The other day, I was asked from my reader,

"Did you start charging for your articles?"

and I was really surprised.

I remembered that for smartphone, user registration to EE Times Japan has been needed as one-action process.

However, you don't need to register from the web browser of PC

Anyway, reading my columns are free of charge even now. I mean, I have no control over this.

I apologize for any inconvenience.

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I think that there are more requests for this type of user registration recently.

I am not good at the actions like this either. so I happen to sto

This cases are apt to happen on Nikkei-XXX site. This is because I am "fed up" with the survey sheets that are required after this registration.

The Nikkei XX website operators should understand the "discomfort" of being asked to write these privacy details -- income, family structure, job title, marital status, unmarried status, etc.

As a general rule, I do not answer surveys that have more than 10 items. It is because it is too much trouble.

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The other day, I went to visit a gym for muscle training, and the moment I saw the questionnaire form (double-sided, with super small characters) that I had to fill out before the visit, I said

"Sorry, I give up"

and left the gym.

I decided that it was not worth the cost of responding to this survey, as I only wanted to tour the gym facilities.

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And maybe many facilities and portals are missing out on potential customers like me because of the 'discomfort' and 'hassle' of users.

If they don't realize that, I think that they are "stupid."

If they realize that, I think that they are "unhelpful stupid."