BugMeNot

BugMeNot ( freely translated: nerve Not Me ) is an Internet service that offers free usernames and passwords for requiring registration website content without the user must register. BugMeNot was founded and started, because more and more websites require a registration in August 2003 by an anonymous person.

  • 5.1 BugMeNot and related services
  • 5.2 Related Links

Using this service

You can add new accounts free of charge to the offer. Users are encouraged to use disposable addresses such as those of spamgourmet to create such accounts. It is not possible to add accounts for pay sites.

BugMeNot provides a bookmarklet available to make it easier to manage the access to the online service. The bookmarklet is supported by every browser. There are also extensions to Windows Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. For Opera there is a Bugmenot widget.

Opt -out solution

Site owners can exclude from their website BugMeNot system if at least one of the following criteria is met:

There is no option available to activate a blocked site once again when a page no longer meets the blocking criteria or has never met.

Because of this restriction, the service has become unusable for the majority of the known pages.

Intermediate page locking and resurrection

Almost exactly one year after the founding BugMeNot was temporarily blocked by the hosting provider. The creator believes that the provider has given in to pressure from various sites, although the provider believes that the service had repeated their servers crash.

Shortly thereafter, the domain bugmenot.com transferred to another provider, but were the visitors before the site was back online, without the knowledge or consent forwarded the owner to racist or fascist pages. The page changed again the provider.

Shortly after the return of BugMeNot was reported that some news sites tried to terminate user accounts that have been published on BugMeNot.com. In August 2008, the site for a few weeks was again unreachable.

Similar services

  • The operators of BugMeNot expanded the " Menot " system in October 2006 by introducing RetailMeNot. This service provides to the discovering and sharing online coupons.
  • From November 2007 BugMeNot offered a service for disposable e- mail addresses.
  • Since January 2008, there were online PDF viewer PdfMeNot. It could also put links to the service and PDF files to be uploaded. The service has been integrated into Google Drive, which also has an online PDF viewer.
  • Since April 2008, there CushyCMS - a simple, hosted CMS solution.
  • Since June 2008, there OurSignal - a viewer for Social Bookmarks.
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