That does erk me slightly. I appreciate the need for anonymity in some circumstances, and the desire for it in others whether it be needed or not, and I'm not keen on being tracked any more than the next person, but...
The "why should I have to give you X before you'll give me Y? - here have junk instead" thing is wrong IMO. You don't have to give them X, you have the option of going elsewhere or simply living without Y. Why should they give you Y without you providing X if they don't want to? Their house, their rules.
Voting with your feet is more likely to have some effect than providing fake information will.
The "why should I have to give you X before you'll give me Y? - here have junk instead" thing is wrong IMO.
That's an interesting opinion. However, this isn't just "their house." They chose to provide their site as part of the Web, and some of us believe that means they'll have to cope with the broader community's norms and traditions, too, including anonymity and pseudonymity.
I respect your reasoning, but the problem with the web is that people tend to flock to one or a few sites, creating monopolies or oligopolies. So it's not like you have a million sites to go "vote with your feet".
I had the same debate regarding open-ended questions on the stack exchange network a while back, and as a result moved to Quora. But no site is perfect.
The "why should I have to give you X before you'll give me Y? - here have junk instead" thing is wrong IMO. You don't have to give them X, you have the option of going elsewhere or simply living without Y. Why should they give you Y without you providing X if they don't want to? Their house, their rules.
Voting with your feet is more likely to have some effect than providing fake information will.