Like I said to someone else, in this thread: if you give Sony your real email address that you use for your real personal shit and your real business shit, you deserve for your info to be tracked. Scientists track dumb animals all the time and there's nothing wrong with that.
Sony isn't asking for your fucking SSN and your birth certificate. They're asking for ANY RANDOM EMAIL ADDRESS THAT YOU HAVE ACCESS TO, SO YOU CAN CLICK AN ACTIVATION LINK.
I'm not even sure they want you to do that. They might not even ask for activation. I haven't done it, so I don't know.
I only haven't done it because I don't play Helldivers 2. Not because I have some kind of principled objection to making a free web account.
I mean, do you realize how many free web accounts we've all made in our lives? Between the years 1997 and 2012, I probably made LITERALLY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREE WEB ACCOUNTS. Now you guys are gonna draw a line in the sand for me, and say "hey, now...don't make any more of those, or you're a corporate shill."
Fine. Whatever. I guess I'm a shill. I'm not going to stop making free accounts for internet shit. That behavior is literally part of my culture.
EDIT: I think I'm going to go ahead and make myself a PSN account, right now. Even though I don't play any Sony games that require one. I'm just doing it to make you guys seethe some more.