Tue, 24 Aug 2004

BugMeNot Gets Booted, Restored

I actually noticed this when it happened: BugMeNot is a great resource, which let's me avoid thinking up new bogus data (and setting up new bogus email accounts) just to read the news. I mean, I still see the ads - and actually respond every once in a while. I know why sites want to know all the marketing data they can get for me: to target ads specifically at me. But why sites need to know this is beyond me: advertiser supported broadcast television has worked quite well for years even though viewed by faceless, nameless couch potatoes, and there's no reason the 'Net should be any different.

The site that helps people evade registration roadblocks on websites couldn't evade trouble itself. Its server host, perhaps bowing to pressure, pulled the plug last week. But a new host is found and BugMeNot is back up. By Rachel Metz.

(link) [Wired News]

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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