Looks like it's just misconfigured. The non-https is still around: http://bugmenot.com
that doesn't work either
BugMeNot Is Gone?
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#12It 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.
Yeah. It's been "gone" for a decade, in some sense.
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#13Never 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.
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#14With 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.
I find for a lot of these webshites [sic], going into Firefox reader mode and reloading the page works.
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#15Never 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 alread…
Throwaway email addresses were not a thing.
Spam laws were not there.
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#17BugMeNot 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.
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#18Never 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 alread…
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.
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#19Never 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 alread…
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.