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[Ripclawe]

http://bugmenot.com


so you don't have to register for most of the news sites out there. the firefox extension makes it a right click function that fills it in automatically.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Holy shit. I just saw this in Time last week. It's an extension? Nice.

nm

 

[Fatalah]

dude, i thank you for bringing this to our attention. awesome find!

 

[aoi tsuki]

You'd be surprised some of the sites it works with too. (Forget IGN Insider, though GS Complete worked a couple of times.)

There's also an Opera version available.

 

[Scrow]

yeah, this is pretty awesome. *thumbs up*

 

[Kefkaff]

*confused* What does this do exactly?

 

[aoi tsuki]

The idea is to provide username and passwords for sites like nytimes.com that require registration just to view an article. By visitiing the site www.bugmenot.com and giving an URL that requires registration, it'll provide you with a sign on, provided there is one. The Firefox extension simply requires a right click on such a page, and a popup with a signon will appear.

 

[Teddman]

That is kickass. I HATE that almost every newspaper has a login nowadays.

Does it only work with Firefox?

 

[Ghost]

I think it is worth pointing out that there is an IE extension on the site aswell

 

[aoi tsuki]

i swear i was on a site that had extensions/plugins/whatever for FF, IE, and Opera.

In any case, the FF extension is available at http://extensions.roachfiend.com/. i'm sure with a bit of Googling, the Opera version could be found (unless i'm just imagining things).

 

[Mike Works]

Just tried it with NYTimes.com and IGN, neither worked.

 

[Ripclawe]

Just tried it with NYTimes.com and IGN, neither worked.

nytimes worked for me. IGN didn't it
this was using firefox, nytimes when you reach the front page, right clicking, then hit the log in link which should have everything filled out.

 

[Mike Works]

It filled in fine (I'm using FF too with the right click method), but said it was an incorrect password.

 

[aoi tsuki]

IGN won't work because there's only one logon per session. NYT works every time for me, and if for whatever reason it didn't, there's always the "This login didn't work" button.

 

[Miguel]

Holy jesus...I went from Firefox 0.8 to 0.9.3. Your avatar is going like 2x faster now. It rawks in hyper fast motion though.

 

[Fifty]

Yeah, same here. Although sites with jpgs on their front pages (news sites) seem to load a bit slower now.

 

[The Faceless Master]

That is kickass. I HATE that almost every newspaper has a login nowadays.

Does it only work with Firefox?

works in mozilla too

 

[Vlad]

Holy jesus...I went from Firefox 0.8 to 0.9.3. Your avatar is going like 2x faster now. It rawks in hyper fast motion though.

Actually, that's because the latest version actually displays .gifs at their intended speeds. Other browsers (IE I know for sure does this, I guess older versions of Firefox did too.. I only started using it recently) put a maximum framerate cap on gifs, so that even if you make a gif with only a 2/10ths of a second delay between frames, certain browsers will display that gif as if the delay was much longer (like 7/10ths of a second or something).

My avatar also only properly displays at its correct speed. If you view it in IE, it'll run a whole lot slower, and won't look as smooth.

 

[Miguel]

Yeah, your avatar looks much smoother than I remember it too.

0.9.3 rox.

 

[jobber]

There's also an Opera version available.

where?

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

holy shit I got into IGN insider

 

[Fragamemnon]

Blog whoring without Firefox w/ Bugmenot would be a real pain.

So for once I agree with ripclawe, good advice here for anyone who has to deal with links to websites of major newspapers.

 

[Diablos]

Does it work for pr0n??

 

[Blinky]

Why do you need FireFox for it?

 

[Gruco]

I think the mods should credit Ripclawe with at least 2 more attacks before ban for posting this.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Why do you need FireFox for it?

Because its an extension, which is one of the many features that makes Firefox surpreme to IE.

 

[DaveH]

It isn't working for me... I've got 0.9.3, but nothing shows up in the right-click menu.

 

[MrPing1000]

holy shit I got into IGN insider

wont work for me Mayb someone changed the pword if u can do that

 

[Fifty]

Why do you need FireFox for it?

You don't.

 

[calder]

It isn't working for me... I've got 0.9.3, but nothing shows up in the right-click menu.

It didn't work for me at first when I was trying it inside the forms, but you just right click on the log-in page but not inside the text field or in the address bar.

 

[DaveH]

It didn't work for me at first when I was trying it inside the forms, but you just right click on the log-in page but not inside the text field or in the address bar.

Much thanks!

 

[Teddman]

Damn, Bugmenot already got shut down, it seems. That sucks, it was really helpful since I found out about it a week ago.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Damn, Bugmenot already got shut down, it seems. That sucks, it was really helpful since I found out about it a week ago.

Well poo. At least I saved my NYT password.

 

[8bit]

Damn, Bugmenot already got shut down, it seems. That sucks, it was really helpful since I found out about it a week ago.

What makes you think it's been shut down?

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

It says www.bugmenot.com can't be found whenever I try to use it.

 

[fse]

SHIT!!!!! :'(

 

[isamu]

DAMMIT! I was just getting ready to grab this! Any other alternatives?

 

[aoi tsuki]

Could've been an a number of things... domain hijack, IIS exploit, or admin goof. The domain points to a server, it's just doesn't seem to contain any relevant info.

 

[Teddman]

http://bugmenot.com is back!!!

 

[Spiritreaver]

Wonderful extension, thanks for the heads up. Hah, I love how the internet works.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Just a recommendation: Try this on EVERY site you come across that requires a username/password combination, regardless of content, regardless of country. You might be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Spiritreaver]

I really hope people are careful about the logins they provide. I just tried this at nintendo.com and got someone's name and address. While it's entirely possible this is fake and I would most likely hope that's the case (I'm not sure as they also registered Nintendo products). People should be a little careful about adding logins to bugmenot.