BugMeNot
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| Offers logins for various websites | |
| languages | English |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | (currently active) |
| http://www.bugmenot.com/ | |
BugMeNot (loosely translated: Nerve Not Me) is an online service , the free user name and passwords for requiring registration site content offering, without that the user has to register. BugMeNot was founded and started by an anonymous person in August 2003 , because more and more websites required registration.
Use of this service
You can add new free accounts to the offer. Users are encouraged to use anonymous, disposable email accounts such as those from Spamgourmet to create such accounts. It is not possible to add accounts for payment websites.
BugMeNot provides a bookmarklet to make access to the online service easier. The bookmarklet is supported by every web browser . There are also extensions for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox . There is a bugmenot widget for Opera .
Opt-out solution
Website owners can exclude their website from the BugMeNot system if at least one of the following criteria is met:
- The website is pay per view and the user has to pay to see it.
- Registration is required to change the content of the website, but not to view the website (e.g. Wikipedia ).
- User accounts contain account data or the like (for example electronic banking websites, eBay or Amazon ).
There is no option to reactivate a website that has been blocked once a page no longer meets the blocking criteria or has never met.
Because of this limitation, the service has become unusable for a large part of the known sites.
Interim site lockdown and resurrection
Almost exactly one year after it was founded, BugMeNot was temporarily blocked by the hosting provider . The creator believes that the provider has given in to pressure from various websites, although the provider believes that the service repeatedly crashed its servers .
Shortly after that was domain bugmenot.com to another provider transferred , but the visitors were before the site was back online, without the knowledge or consent of the owner of racist or fascist pages forwarded . The side changed the provider again.
Shortly after the return of BugMeNot, it was reported that some news sites were attempting to block user accounts posted on BugMeNot.com. In August 2008 the site was again unavailable for a few weeks.
Similar services
- The operators of BugMeNot expanded the "MeNot" system in October 2006 by introducing RetailMeNot . This service allows you to find and share online vouchers .
- From November 2007, BugMeNot offered a service for disposable e-mail addresses .
- The online PDF display program PdfMeNot was launched in January 2008 . Links could also be set to this service and PDF files could be uploaded . The service has been integrated into Google Drive , which also has an online PDF viewer.
- OurSignal - a display program for social bookmarks - has been around since June 2008 .
Web links
BugMeNot and related services
- http://www.bugmenot.com - BugMeNot website
Related Links
- https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6349/ - Firefox - extension
- http://www.unixdaemon.net/ie_plugins.html#bugmenot_plugin - plugin for Internet Explorer
- http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4172/ - widget for the Opera browser
- Widget for Mac OS X ( Memento from May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Greasemonkey-Script ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmund Tadros (October 8, 2007) Revealed: the brains behind Bugmenot , Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax, accessed October 8, 2007.
- ↑ Form to exclude a website from BugMeNot . Accessed November 30, 2019.
- ↑ Example of accessing a website that is excluded from BugMeNot .
- ↑ Rachel Metz: BugMeNot Gets Booted, Restored . Wired magazine . August 23, 2004.