I do not recall requesting "added functionality".

[athelind]

This irks me.

Your old Blogger account username is athelind.

Your blogs have been moved to the new version of Blogger. To access your blogs,
you will need to associate them with a Google Account.

Claim your Blogger account by clicking on the following link...

Let's see how intrusive they get.

Comments

[foofers.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm surprised they didn't work "for your convenience" into that as well.

[mythos-amante.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, WTF! I've just been trying to log in in order to delete mine and it won;t let me recover my password! ARGH!

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Actually, I found next to no change to my Blogger account when it got switched over to Google. It's been highly unintrusive, believe it or not.