Thanks for the response. In regards to number 1 I would be very surprised for that to be true simply because these pages are asking people to sign up often before a user has had time to read the first couple of sentences in the opening paragraph. I guess this is the part that drives me nuts is that they don't give you time to read the content before asking so how would someone even make an informed decision before giving out their email address?

Interesting about number 2.

Is there still not an extension to block this HTML element?