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BugMeNot.com

BugMeNot is one of those ideas that seem obvious in hindsight. Much like Mailinator, a site it works well in conjunction with, it helps to make your day to day web browsing easier and enhances your privacy.

The best description of the sites purpose comes from the sites own FAQ: "BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times)."

Every time someone uses one of these sites they set up an account (using Mailinator as an anonymous email box if needed) and then add it to the BugMeNot database. When you want to read registration required content you use either the bookmarklet, FireFox plugin or hopefully this one to retrieve the credentials from the database and save yourself from entering your own details and risking spam or the effort of setting up your own fake account.

This plugin was inspired by the FireFox BugMeNot addin written by Eric Hamiter. I really like the ideas behind th site and wanted an IE version.

The exe can be found here and a zipped version with (GPL'd) sourcecode and documentation can be found here.