Monday, September 05, 2005

Another reason to use Firefox -- BugMeNot

BugMeNot is one of the gazillion wonderful little extensions you can add to your Firefox installation to make your net surfing experience even better.

Ever followed a link to an online news story, and instead been presented with something like the following?
Pain the ass, really, all those news sites wanting your details before they'll let you read their stuff.

Get around such annoyances quickly & easily with the BugMeNot extension:
  1. Right-click in one of the "Registered Members Log In Here" fields.
  2. Select "BugMeNot" in the context menu that appears.
  3. You will automatically be logged in & taken to the news story, with details provided by BugMeNot's growing database of fake rego details.
  4. If the details provided by BugMeNot don't work, you'll remain on the log in page, so repeat Steps 1 & 2 until you get a valid log in.
The BugMeNot service also provides a web site where you can do a manual search of their database, but you will need to type in the site's url & copy suggested login details between the sites yourself. So if you ain't using Firefox yet, you're not completely out in the cold, but it's just a heckuva lot easier to bypass compulsory rego's using BugMeNot with Firefox!

So, now, what are you waiting for?

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