The Superfluous Checkbox

I had to access www.ns.sg today to apply for an Overseas Notification. It has been quite a while - a few months at least - since I've visited the website, and one improvement is noticeable: the download speed of the website. Previously, it can take minutes before a page - a normal page with a few small images - load, but it seems that they have finally migrated away from their antiquated server. I hope they can do the same to the signal sets we carry, but I digress...

Since I was logged in to that website, I thought I might as well update some of my particulars, mainly my email address. Apparently, www.ns.sg thinks I'm still using my Hotmail one, whereas it is nearly a year since I switched over to Gmail. I thought I had changed with www.ns.sg when I ditched Hotmail, but maybe I got tired of spending half an hour trying to access the profile page (which is creatively called MyProfile).

Well, I did just that, and tried to submit. It threw this back at me:



It seems that I need to tick a checkbox saying "I would like to receive NS Portal eNewsletter updates and agree to Terms and Conditions". And since I cannot submit my personal information without agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, this checkbox is superfluous. Die die I must subscribe to the newsletter I won't read, and probably filter to spam when they start coming.

Sigh... why so Pioneer magazine one? But at least this one no need to pay...