I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I'm confident that the lackluster response had less to do with your topic and more to do with the new design of the site driving people away. I know I'm down from visiting several times a day to a few times a week.
Angry Birds tweaked the formula enough to stand out on it's own. This game, and many more like it, don't even try to do that. It's Angry Birds almost entirely verbatim.
Exactly. It's an interesting exercise, but misleading. That's like taking a bunch of pictures of people's faces, only keeping the ones that look alike, and saying "All people look the same."
Seriously, Gizmodo? In the midst of this redesign fiasco, THIS is how you try to keep readers who were on the fence about sticking around? This is fucking ridiculous.
Tell me how your zip code is in any way endangering your privacy. Depending on your area, a zip code is fucking huge. Nobody is going to track you down because they know the extremely vague area where you live.
There's a very slight possibility for identity theft when paying by credit card, but in that case they probably have your ID anyway.