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BugMeNot Is Gone?
- theCrowing 4y agoIt got less and less useful in the last years a lot of sites killed a login as soon as it hit bugmenot understandable to shut it down.
- loeg 4y agoYeah. It's been "gone" for a decade, in some sense.
- pifm_guy 4y agoStill worked for ~75% of sites I visited. Especially smaller sites and those annoying forums that required a login to download attachments.
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agoWeb-browsers are a lot better at auto-filling registration forms correctly thesedays, and now that even Office 365 supports disposable e-mail addresses means that registering for online services is far less of a chore than it was before. Also, many sites support federated identity (OIDC, Sign-in-with-Google, etc) which also takes a lot of the pain away. I remember in years gone-by, before data/privacy-laws were either introduced or widely understood by web-devs that sites would have all manner of required fields just because someone from marketing or management thinks they need to collect everyones' home address, age, home, work, and mobile phone numbers, and sex/gender - now that they legally can't (without a good reason) things are a lot smoother. So in summary, BugMeNot is gone because the severity of the problem it aimed to solve (online registration tedium) has been reduced below the threshold of action.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoNo, that's not it: privacy from corporate tracking.
- f0e4c2f7 4y agoHadn't used it in a while but I used to love this site years ago. Such a convience.
- alex3305 4y agoWith the amount of paywalls with 'Premium articles' the usefulness of Bugmenot declined IMHO. It sucks, because I used it quite a bit back in the day.
- PontifexMinimus 4y agoI find for a lot of these webshites [sic], going into Firefox reader mode and reloading the page works.
- codefined 4y agoIt seems only the 'https' site is gone, the 'http' site is still around[0]. [0] http://bugmenot.com/view/news.ycombinator.com http://bugmenot.com/view/news.ycombinator.com
- scrapcode 4y agoNot working for me ~8 minutes later.
- superkuh 4y agoIt's probably your browser trying to protect you from yourself, re: HTTPS. It works in non-user hostile browsers.
- sph 4y agoWhich browser from this decade ignores HSTS completely?
- stuartd 4y agoSafari on iPadOS 16 loads that just fine for me. I’d forgotten all about this site, don’t remember ever using it but I certainly heard of it.
- stuartd 4y agoHaven’t managed to find a site (apart from HN) that it does allow yet!
- autoexec 4y agoIt works for me in firefox, but I've got it locked down pretty hard. I have the following all set to false in about:config network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist dom.security.https_first dom.security.https_first_pbm browser.fixup.fallback-to-https
- neurostimulant 4y ago
- zachflower 4y agoLooks like it's just misconfigured. The non-https is still around: http://bugmenot.com http://bugmenot.com
- misterbwong 4y agoLooks like that's gone too
- antx 4y agoNot from here, no...
- jbverschoor 4y agoHsts?
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- ricardo81 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security Trying from another browser works
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- lhoff 4y agoThat stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security. Its a http header that basically tells your browser to only connect to this website via HTTPS/TLS for a configurable amount of time. Its a protection mechanism that prevents encryption stripping man-in-the-middle attacks.
- jbverschoor 4y agoI know, that's why I mentioned it. The http site worked fine for me, so I figured parent post already has a HSTS entry in his browser
- dinobones 4y agoI think the past 5 times I've tried getting a valid user/password combination from here it has not worked.
- dogma1138 4y agoNever understood why people use it seems to be too risky. You can end up sharing an account with someone associated with some unsavory activity and end up having to explain it. Plus many sites allow users to view their login and download activity logs which means your private information can leak that way. Sure VPNs and TORs can help mitigate some of that risk but BMN isn’t for opsec it’s for continence if you already are taking extra steps for opsec you might as well use disposable email addresses for your disposable accounts.
- jbverschoor 4y agoThrowaway email addresses were not a thing. Spam laws were not there.
- seri4l 4y agoI created several BugMeNot accounts over the years without any issues. I guess if any of them got used for unsavory stuff it would be pretty clear from the logs that the account was shared.
- tjoff 4y agoYou typically don't put in any information in these systems. It is mainly to combat download links that require you to create an account etc. I really don't see any risk if you use it for stuff like that. And they'd have to really put in an effort to even find you.
- blackfawn 4y agoI only ever used it to access things that should not have been behind a user account in the first place. It was really just an opt out for the forced "sign up for our newsletter/spam to download our app" type paths. The only thing it'd really leak is that someone with a particular IP had used bugmenot... Which many would likely consider an advantage over going through creating an account and potentially getting spammed.
- m-p-3 4y agoI rely on email proxy for most stuff nowadays, so when I register an account I can at least temporarily disable the address used for this particular service if it gets too spammy. Combined with a password manager it's mostly the only way to stay sane online.
- aaron695 4y agoBugMeNot was a good example of a pivot - RetailMeNot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetailMeNot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetailMeNot ($90 million for the founders) Which is why they let BugMeNot start slipping over a decade ago removing domains when requested, they didn't want to risk the cash cow.
- sandykory 4y agoIt wasn't a pivot - the founders were great bootstrapped hackers who wanted to try out different models. They promoted RMN to BMN users which gave it a meaningful early boost.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoToo bad RMN is garbage these days. Either the promo codes don't work, or they're not even promo codes at all, just a list of sales. And half the time, those sales are expired. I just use Honey these days to automate trying all the codes. Yes, I know I'm certainly giving away my shopping habits, but I don't really care.
- sdze 4y agoDidn’t work in recent times anyway.
- vborovikov 4y agoI check the copied password for whitespace and usually that's the reason for the password not working
- sdze 4y agointeresting. Will check again in future. Thank you.
- xony 4y ago
- idonotknowwhy 4y agoStill works via HTTP Used it recently for ABC iview because now they require a fucking account, even though I'm paying for this through my taxes. Used it about 2 months ago for a download off some random forum which required an account. Great site!
- jw1224 4y agoI reckon this is because MediaTemple migrated a bunch of customers over to cPanel today… My old (gs) website started showing the same error page within minutes of this being posted.
- jmm5 4y agoThey used to be hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.Net
- Ptchd 4y agoI stopped using this site along with retailmenot a long time ago as they aren't very useful anymore...
- 1letterunixname 4y agoMediatemple. Haven't heard that name in ages. It looks like they're still in CA.
- Tanath 4y agoBlocked in uBO by The Block List Project - Malware List.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoBlock list without veracity or traceability doesn't mean much...
- Tanath 4y agoI was hoping someone would know why it was blocked as malware, thinking it might be compromised and that people should be warned. VT says it's safe though so it's likely a mistake. Not sure what you mean about traceability. You could check the github.