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June 14, 2004
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Tired of all those sites that ask you to register for access, then ask you for every bit of personal information they can possibly think of? Yeah, we are too. The trend has become so pervasive that even newspapers are scrambling to get on the bandwagon. Can you imagine having to give your name, age, address, occupation, and income level before you could get a newspaper out of the rack? Sound ridiculous? Venerable bastions of the almighty pen such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as many others, are doing just that with their online editions.
Just in the nick of time comes BugMeNot.com. Launched in November of 2003, BugMeNot is a site where you can enter your favorite blood-sucking URL and log in using a communal I.D. and password.
What? Your favorite site is not accessible via BugMeNot? No problem. Just hop on over to Mailinator and your worries are over. Instantaneous, single-use, untraceable e-mail addresses. Feel free to sign-up for those pesky, leeching sites and feel secure in the fact that you don't have to divulge any real information, not even your e-mail address.
So join us in our quest here at i cant think to completely skew all those massive databases with completely useless information.
And tell 'em b sent ya.
Posted by bcoffee at June 14, 2004 08:06 PM
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