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If users don't want to provide an email (and then can't reset their password), that should be their prerogative.


As a user who doesn't want to provide my personal email to random services, I have a throwaway email on a different provider with a gibberish username. Given that signing up for 99% of services already requires an email account (or a Facebook/Twitter login, which themselves require a verified email address), Persona is no less onerous.


Realistically, in the modern commercial Web, a user who doesn't want to provide an email probably has negative lifetime value.




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