“Internet companies are violating our privacy more and more these days! I’ll tell you about it as soon as I finish filling this form out.”

“Internet companies are violating our privacy more and more these days! I’ll tell you about it as soon as I finish filling this form out.”
My frustration is being required to create a customer account in order to contact customer service to ask pre-sale questions.
I've lost count of the number of companies that I have chosen not to do business with because of this requirement.