Is it weird that my reaction to all of this is that I am just going to drop these websites when they ask me for this?
No, but what would you do if it's a government required service?
Oh I wish! Had to solve one in order to pay a bill.
The internet is dead.
I've already dropped sites/services where annoyance-invasion/usefulness ratio is above 50% but I'm afraid it will be unavoidable in some cases.
At least I know what kind of hand gesture they will get first :)