Bug Me Not!

As I was wandering around several news outlets I found a few wanting me to "register" so they could deliver news to me... Why do they need to know anything about me? I don't have to give personal info at the newsstand to get a newspaper. I don't have to answer a questionnaire to turn on the TV... It just doesn’t seem right! < /rant >

Apparently a number of other folks agree and a website exists to provide folks with dummy credentials to use at sites that are too nosy for your taste… SO, instead of telling them about yourself, you now use the credentials of a 95 year old student who buys beer and tofu and uses windows 95… 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). Check them out the next time you visit a site that asks too many questions…