Access Forums and Sites without Registering
June 29th, 2009
We all search for information using search engines. A lot of us have come across a forum we need to access for that information, but the forum may require us to register and sign in first. This is annoying- signing up to a forum, just for a 1 time visit. I decided to make this post, which will guide you around doing this mess.
Let me explain the science behind the following technique: most sites and forums will block unregistered users, but they NEVER block Google Bot. We are basically going to switch our User Agent to Google Bot, which will allow us to freely browse almost any site or forum without registering.
First grab the Firefox add-on called “User Agent” here and install. Next, go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options and then Options again.
Select User Agent from the left sidebar and click Add. In the description field type:
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
and in User Agent field type:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
(screen shot below)
Now we are going to set Google Bot as our User Script by going to Tools > User Agent Switcher.
Enjoy visiting forums w/o registering 
Also try BugMeNot.com- it’s a free online directory where users share login information for different websites.
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