Ever more web sites require you to register on them for free and sign in with a username and password to view their contents. An active surfer can easily accumulate dozens of logins for various sites across the Web. But what about when you don’t want to go through the whole tiresome procedure of registering for a web site — you simply want inside?
Web site BugMeNot maintains a public database of shared usernames and passwords for free web sites. If you come across a site that prompts you to log in to view its content, bypass the registration process by heading to BugMeNot to search for an already-created username and password. Not all BugMeNot logins will work, but you can see the percentage success rate for a particular login and report whether it worked for you as well. If you can’t find a BugMeNot login that works? Create one and share it with the BugMeNot community.
Web site BugMeNot maintains a public database of shared usernames and passwords for free web sites. If you come across a site that prompts you to log in to view its content, bypass the registration process by heading to BugMeNot to search for an already-created username and password. Not all BugMeNot logins will work, but you can see the percentage success rate for a particular login and report whether it worked for you as well. If you can’t find a BugMeNot login that works? Create one and share it with the BugMeNot community.
There are three ways to use BugMeNot:
- Enter the address of the site you want to log into on BugMeNot.com to get a list of possible logins.
- Drag and drop the Bugmenot bookmarklet to your web browser’s links toolbar. When you come onto a site you’d like to log into, click the bookmarklet and get login detail suggestions in a pop-up window as shown in the fig. Copy and paste the suggested login — in this example, username stupidideas and password asdfghjkl — into the nytimes.com login page to view a password-protected article.
- Download and install the BugMeNot Firefox extension, available here. Restart Firefox. Next time you are presented with a username and password prompt, right-click inside the username text box and choose Login with BugMeNot as shown in the fig.
The extension is the fastest way to log in with a BugMeNot account because it doesn’t require you to copy and paste the username and password into the login fields, but it only works in Firefox (http://mozilla.org/firefox/).
