I was trying to comment on a ZDNet blog a few days ago, and I was forced to register for a ZDNet account. The bad part: they signed me up for a bunch of electronic newsletters without giving me an obvious opt-out. The only way to keep my ZDNet account and unsubscribe from the newsletters that I have found so far is to supply them with a lot of personal information (Name, Address, etc). I was worried about, until I noticed that GMail was auto-sorting the ZDNet newsletters as SPAM.

Nicely done, Google.