Techrights is active outside this site too, e.g. in IRC channels. Over at Twitter and Identi.ca the site has got presence too, although some fake accounts exist which pretend to speak for Techrights. Here are links to the official accounts:
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it