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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