You might know the useful website BugMeNot which provides usernames and passwords to various websites on the Internet. It essential is a way to access information that are only available after logging in which means the website is forcing the user to register to access the contents. This does have several advantages like not getting [...]

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Many sites have the requirement that you need to signup to access their content. I don’t want to talk about the positive and negative effects of forcing users to signup before they can access information on a website but I would like to point out that some websites use the signup process solely to gain a valid email address from the user which can be sold to questionable companies. A temporary email address on the other side is a way to be able to signup to those websites without revealing one of your private email addresses.

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Ever been to an website like www.nytimes.com and had to register to login? Of course you can register a fake account using a disposable email address (like 6url or dodgeit) But there are more people who do that, so why not have a database with these kinds of fake accounts?

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Many websites force you to register to see content on their site. Most claim that they won´t sell or abuse your email that you register with but you can´t be sure about this. What if you desperately want to access the content but don´t want to risk that your email account receives heaps of spam because the email has been sold to spammers ?

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