BugMeNot.com – A site dedicated to bypassing required registration

Posted on June 27, 2007 at 4:22 pm

BugMeNot.com is a hardcore web site whose sole purpose is to avoid having to register at any site on the Internet! Lately with more information on the Internet, I have found myself browsing many sites that require registration to simply view the page! Usually, a web site will follow this method in order to get some of your personal information for either their own tracking purposes or to spam you! I like how the creators of the BugMeNot web site put it “It’s annoying as hell”. Why does a site that only provides information on celebrities need to have my name, home address, phone number, and email address!?

Here’s how it works: Next time you hit upon a site that requires registration, i.e. the New York Times, copy the link and go to BugMeNot.com. Paste the address into the text box and click Get Logins. You’ll be presented with a list of logins created and working for that particular site. Use those to login.

I’m not sure how legal this is, but it’s definitely very useful for sites like MySpace.com, YouTube.com, IMDB.com, etc. Give it a shot and see if it works for you. They also have a nice FireFox extension so that you don’t even have to go to the BugMeNot web site! When you’re asked to login on a web site, simply right-click inside the username or password text field and you’ll see an option called Login with BugMeNot.

If the logins provided to you don’t work (you’ll see the success rate for each login under the heading stats), go ahead and create one yourself and submit it to the site. Also remember to answer whether the login worked for you or not, that way if a particular login has stopped working, the site will take it off.