[HN Gopher] BugMeNot Is Gone ___________________________________________________________________ BugMeNot Is Gone Author : jacopoj Score : 56 points Date : 2022-11-15 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (bugmenot.com) (TXT) w3m dump (bugmenot.com) | dogma1138 wrote: | Never 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 wrote: | Throwaway email addresses were not a thing. | | Spam laws were not there. | seri4l wrote: | I 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 wrote: | You 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 wrote: | I 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. | f0e4c2f7 wrote: | Hadn't used it in a while but I used to love this site years ago. | Such a convience. | alex3305 wrote: | With 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 wrote: | I find for a lot of these webshites [sic], going into Firefox | reader mode and reloading the page works. | codefined wrote: | It seems only the 'https' site is gone, the 'http' site is still | around[0]. | | [0] http://bugmenot.com/view/news.ycombinator.com | scrapcode wrote: | Not working for me ~8 minutes later. | superkuh wrote: | It's probably your browser trying to protect you from | yourself, re: HTTPS. It works in non-user hostile browsers. | sph wrote: | Which browser from this decade ignores HSTS completely? | zachflower wrote: | Looks like it's just misconfigured. The non-https is still | around: http://bugmenot.com | titaniumtown wrote: | that doesn't work either | misterbwong wrote: | Looks like that's gone too | jbverschoor wrote: | Hsts? | ricardo81 wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Securit | y | | Trying from another browser works | AdamJacobMuller wrote: | works fine for me | sph wrote: | It's not, the HTTPS site has the HSTS header, so your browser | will always redirect to the HTTPS version even if you try the | plaintext port. Gotta clear your browser cache, or try | another browser. | antx wrote: | Not from here, no... | aaron695 wrote: | BugMeNot was a good example of a pivot - 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. | theCrowing wrote: | It 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 wrote: | Yeah. It's been "gone" for a decade, in some sense. | sdze wrote: | Didn't work in recent times anyway. | dinobones wrote: | I think the past 5 times I've tried getting a valid user/password | combination from here it has not worked. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-15 23:00 UTC)