BugMeNot Is Gone?(bugmenot.com) |
BugMeNot Is Gone?(bugmenot.com) |
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.
My old (gs) website started showing the same error page within minutes of this being posted.
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!
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.
They promoted RMN to BMN users which gave it a meaningful early boost.
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.
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.
Combined with a password manager it's mostly the only way to stay sane online.
Law enforcement isn’t even likely to know that the account is on BMN or even what it is. And what’s worse is if the rest of the IPs are foreign but you are local well congrats you’ve now become the focus simply for being within reach.
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.
Spam laws were not there.
It allows servers to specify that browsers should never even attempt to make an unencrypted request to the site and instead silently convert any such requests to encrypted requests.
This header is good for security but it’s also convenient for old sites that don’t want to update their existing links. They can upgrade the whole site to HTTPS without any content changes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/St...
Trying from another browser works
Its a protection mechanism that prevents encryption stripping man-in-the-middle attacks.
Very useful for testing but don't make a habit to use it on some random websites.
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