I never give out any personal information to any site unless absolutely necessary. I'm with you JJ, no matter how beneficial one article or one experience on a website might be, I simply refuse to give any personal information away to any site I'm not going to deal with on an ongoing basis. Maybe it stems from my years of computer network techie training...I had to do several brutal courses on Internet security and that was enough for me to exercise personal caution.

It doesn't say anything whatsoever about the sites themselves, it's a personal choice...mine's based on a wealth of information I've had to study about cookies and spyware and how these sites use your information, despite the best-sounding privacy policies.