BugMeNot

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Ben Cooper

http://www.bugmenot.com/

What is BugMeNot?-
"BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of
web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of
personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times)."

At the BugMeNot site they offer three options to make this service
easier to use-
A bookmarklet, a FireFox extension and an IE plugin.

I'm using the IE plugin and haven't tried the other two. The IE plugin
adds a "bugmenot" selection to your right-click options.
The IE plugin makes it much simpler to retrieve a login and password
from the BugMeNot site by opening a popup page with the login info
already loaded for the page that requests a logon.

Thumbs up!
 
http://www.bugmenot.com/

What is BugMeNot?-
"BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of
web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of
personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times)."

At the BugMeNot site they offer three options to make this service
easier to use-
A bookmarklet, a FireFox extension and an IE plugin.

I'm using the IE plugin and haven't tried the other two. The IE plugin
adds a "bugmenot" selection to your right-click options.
The IE plugin makes it much simpler to retrieve a login and password
from the BugMeNot site by opening a popup page with the login info
already loaded for the page that requests a logon.

Thumbs up!
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I installed this extension in Firefox last week. The first time I
tried to use it, on the New York Times web site, I tried 6 different
BugMeNot selections for user name and password, and none of them were
good. I finally gave up and haven't used it since.
 
john said:
I installed this extension in Firefox last week. The first time I
tried to use it, on the New York Times web site, I tried 6 different
BugMeNot selections for user name and password, and none of them were
good. I finally gave up and haven't used it since.
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Bummer.
Every time I've pulled up a username and password it's always worked on
the first try.
 
Ben said:
The IE plugin makes it much simpler to retrieve a login and password
from the BugMeNot site by opening a popup page with the login info
already loaded for the page that requests a logon.
Click to expand...

For what it's worth, Firefox remembers my name/password for the New
York Times page and has them loaded for me when I go there. No need
for an extension or app to do it for me. Same goes for any other web
sites that need my name/password.
 
Me said:
Ben Cooper wrote:




For what it's worth, Firefox remembers my name/password for the New
York Times page and has them loaded for me when I go there. No need
for an extension or app to do it for me. Same goes for any other web
sites that need my name/password.
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BugMeNot lets you log in without registering. If you register, you do
not need it.

GA
 
Gordon said:
BugMeNot lets you log in without registering. If you register, you do
not need it.
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Oh, I see what you mean now. Hmm, I just watched the tutorial at...

http://bugmenot.com/help/help_advanced.html

....and you still have to cut-and-paste the login details from the popup.
Ergo, it's faster for me to register once and have the details already
in the fields than to cut-and-paste whenever I return to the page...
 
Every time I've pulled up a username and password it's always worked on
the first try.
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Have you tried it with the New York Times? Let me know if it works
there for you, maybe I need to tweak it somehow.
 
john said:
Have you tried it with the New York Times? Let me know if it works
there for you, maybe I need to tweak it somehow.
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Yes, that's mainly the site I use it for. I haven't had one rejected
yet. Maybe I've just been lucky. :)
 
Me said:
Gordon Abbot wrote:




Oh, I see what you mean now. Hmm, I just watched the tutorial at...

http://bugmenot.com/help/help_advanced.html

...and you still have to cut-and-paste the login details from the popup.
Ergo, it's faster for me to register once and have the details already
in the fields than to cut-and-paste whenever I return to the page...
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Agree for continual visits. But works great for one time visits to sites
that demand registration, especially detailed registration that will be
used by them.

GA
 
Gordon said:
Agree for continual visits. But works great for one time visits to
sites that demand registration, especially detailed registration that
will be used by them.
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Agreed! :)
 
Somtime near 30 Jul 2004 15:33:59 GMT, Aaron
Autofill and similar extensions making registering much easier.
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The point of this software is for entering a site you *don't* want to
register with.
 
Aaron said:
you can register with throwaway email acounts
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The best "throwaway" e-mail service is Mailinator.com, IMO.
When a site wants your e-mail address, you just make one up
right on the spot, without leaving the site, in the format
of: *@mailinator.com. Then the site will send an e-mail
there, which you can retrieve. No need to sign up with
Mailinator.com at all to use it, either. 100% freeware.
 
Me said:
The best "throwaway" e-mail service is Mailinator.com, IMO.
When a site wants your e-mail address, you just make one up
right on the spot, without leaving the site, in the format
of: *@mailinator.com. Then the site will send an e-mail
there, which you can retrieve. No need to sign up with
Mailinator.com at all to use it, either. 100% freeware.
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OR... you could use BugMeNot and not have to go through *any*
registration process. :)
 
Ben said:
OR... you could use BugMeNot and not have to go through *any*
registration process. :)
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Mailinator.com is faster than BugMeNot for sites that need an
e-mail address, because you don't have to visit Mailinator.com
first. With BugMeNot, you have to go their first just to get
the login details -- not so with Mailinator.com, because you
make up an address while at the site that is asking for one,
and then go straight on in after entering it.
 
Me said:
Mailinator.com is faster than BugMeNot for sites that need an
e-mail address, because you don't have to visit Mailinator.com
first. With BugMeNot, you have to go their first just to get
the login details -- not so with Mailinator.com, because you
make up an address while at the site that is asking for one,
and then go straight on in after entering it.
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Which has nothing to do with creating new accounts for articles or
stories you want to read on sites that require registration information,
made-up or not.
Mailinator *can't* be faster than BugMeNot because BugMeNot provides
logon info "ready to use".
 
SpamGourmet seems to have slightly more features.
OR... you could use BugMeNot and not have to go through *any*
registration process. :)
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I understand the problem is not with using email accounts, but rather the
time you take to fill in the email, first name, last name. mailing
address, city, state, etc.

Using something like autofill, will allow you to fill in such fields with
a single click, speeding up the registration process.
 
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