TIP: How to avoid registering at a gazillion web sites

[unhappycamper]

Many threads have links to articles at web sites that require you to register before you can read the article. When you hit a registration screen, open up another browser window, go to

http://bugmenot.com/

and paste in the URL from the registration window. You will see ID/password combinations to get around the registration issue.

[lonestarnot]

1. hmmm....

[Extend a Hand]

2. yes, great site

I love bugmenot. There is also a bugmenot firefox extension you can download that automatically fills in many sites for you :)

[tx_dem41]

3. What's so scary about registering at a newspaper/newsource website?

.... I do it all the time using a special email and I have never received spam to that email.

[LeftyMom]

5. It's time consuming

if I want to read one article from the Springfield Shopper somebody's linked to it's a pain to spend five minutes registering. Besides, a lot of registrations require information about income, where one lives, etc that I don't feel like sharing. I'm going to lie to protect my privacy anyhow, so it's a lot faster to just use bugmenot to sidestep the whole rigamarole.

Most of the time if I have to register and can't use bugmenot I don't read the article.

[tx_dem41]

6. How is it less time consuming to go to bugmenot.com and

type in a URL and get a id/password combo (that might or might not work) and then go back to the original news site? I just go to the site and type in my id/password (or if I haven't wiped my cookies out....I just go directly to the article).

I don't use bugmenot because it IS too time consuming. I don't want to waste my time.

As for the privacy factor, if someone wants to use what articles I read against me....let'em try....I'm not scared.

[LiberalPersona]

8. There is a bugmenot extension

for Firefox,it allows you to simply right click in a box and have it fetch and enter a name/password for you.

[tx_dem41]

11. Okay....one day...I HAVE to load Firefox.

Thanks for the info.

[unhappycamper]

9. not really

Open a new browser window, select the "registration" URL, copy it (Ctrl-C) & paste (Ctrl-V) that string into bugmenot. No typing involved.

[tx_dem41]

10. No typing involved for me either....

and no "typing" of <Ctrl-C> and <Ctrl-V> or opening a new window.

[patricia92243]

4. My google toolbar fill in forms for me. Wait - that is not passwords -

sorry. :(

[Snotcicles]

7. Thanks n/t

[BigBearJohn]

12. Fanstastic tip. Recommended!

[kliljedahl]

13. Thanks, wasn't aware of the site

Are they real or made up passwords & is there a failure rate?


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