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I only ever used it to access things that should not have been behind a user account in the first place. It was really just an opt out for the forced "sign up for our newsletter/spam to download our app" type paths. The only thing it'd really leak is that someone with a particular IP had used bugmenot... Which many would likely consider an advantage over going through creating an account and potentially getting spammed.

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I rely on email proxy for most stuff nowadays, so when I register an account I can at least temporarily disable the address used for this particular service if it gets too spammy.

Combined with a password manager it's mostly the only way to stay sane online.

It doesn’t matter you use it to access a news article someone else uses it to issue a death threat as a joke or do something worse your IP is tagged on the same account and someone might come knocking.

Law enforcement isn’t even likely to know that the account is on BMN or even what it is. And what’s worse is if the rest of the IPs are foreign but you are local well congrats you’ve now become the focus simply for being within reach.

That sure is a bunch of fearmongery. With how mobile everyone is these days an account can be logged into by hundreds of IPs, including residential IPs like friends and family. It's not a very significant data point for law enforcement unless they can find any actual dirt through that.

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