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I went to the website, clicked on the search bar, and was immediately stopped from proceeding unless I provided a Google login.

Why is that necessary? No idea, they don’t say.

Doesn’t seem like a “web” I’d want to partake in, with Google as a gatekeeper even if they’re not the authors of the content.



Websim utilizes LLM to generate a fictional website based on a domain name you provide, and displays the result in their virtual browser.

LLM generations are quite costly so it is difficult to provide them without some kind of anti abuse strategies in place, so I think that's fair.


Thank you. I had no idea what TFA was trying to get across


Yeah, the requirement to create a Google account was a show-stopper for me.


They're just using Google for an easy user onboarding, nothing to get all up in arms about. Websim is trying to sell plans for more than 30 generations a day.


Makes a little sense to show a "register with Google" button, but clicking the main UI element and being redirected to a Google sign-in screen is bad form.

Also weird that apparently you can sign in via Discord, but you can only sign up via Google?


Not sure, maybe it's some growth hacking trick I'm not aware of.




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