Bots ruined an once useful website with fake credentials that lead to nothing

3 years ago by Magnetic_dud to c/mildlyinfuriating

Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!

Cyyy 46 points 3 years ago

i know that site from when i was still a teen and even then it was 99% fake creds. finding just one single working login in a whole week was like finding a treasure for me.

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glimse 28 points 3 years ago

Guessing you're younger than me because when I was a teen, this site was AMAZING!

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Cyyy 9 points 3 years ago

i'm almost 30 and was using (or trying to use..) the site when i was around 14-16 years old. dunno when the site first released thought. i stopped bothering after trying countless hours for weeks to use the site.. but people just spammed fake accounts.

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glimse 11 points 3 years ago

Ah yeah that explains it, I've got a few years on you. Bugmenot has been around since the early 2000s

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can 5 points 3 years ago

Come to think of it I think I may have heard about it from a magazine.

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Cyyy 3 points 3 years ago

damn, I didn't expected BugMeNot being that old. Interesting.

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joyjoy 30 points 3 years ago

Sounds like the security community working together to minimize the effectiveness of a hacking community.

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blackfire 16 points 3 years ago

I was thinking that. Flood the market with fakes to deter the average skript kiddie

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taanegl 7 points 3 years ago
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blackfire 3 points 3 years ago

I disagree in the infosec conflict of interest. Flooding might even be a product in some vendor.

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taanegl 2 points 3 years ago
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Moonrise2473 6 points 3 years ago

I see more spambots trying to monetize on desperate people. People try the link in the password field, that goes in a rabbit hole of concatenated ad.fly link "shorteners" that only show endless ads

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lurch 28 points 3 years ago
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NocturnalEngineer 18 points 3 years ago

And a rate limit

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RememberTheApollo_ 25 points 3 years ago

This site was great for like a year. Then it got spammed to shit like every other coupon/deal site with expired or fake deals, or just garbage. It wasn’t even worth trying to find a single working code or account. I’d forgotten this site even existed I haven’t used it in such a long time.

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skillissuer 20 points 3 years ago

fuck scribd, just upload yer shit to researchgate like a normal person

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WamGams 8 points 3 years ago

This website worked for me once, a bang bus credential.

Never found anything else it worked for, and the bang bus credential lasted for maybe 6 days.

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can 8 points 3 years ago

Do you need a specific file? Send me the scribd link.

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Shurf116 5 points 3 years ago

I agree, fuck scribd. I usually google "scribd free online downloader", there's a site (or maybe several sites, idc, I just use the first one) which allows you to somehow avoid the stupid paywall and registration

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KonalaKoala -5 points 3 years ago

Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.

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brian 15 points 3 years ago

this just looks like poor moderation, enshittification very specifically refers to monetization efforts of the company destroying the platform

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InfiniWheel 4 points 3 years ago

People when they learn a new word

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Magnetic_dud 2 points 3 years ago

enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot

scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it's designed for business.

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