tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2941625349105197973..comments2024-03-28T10:42:53.231-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A followup on the "Cake Today" blogpost theftsMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-26226357810316812452010-08-08T22:17:53.899-05:002010-08-08T22:17:53.899-05:00Long story short, you can't fight back if you ...Long story short, you can't fight back if you don't own your blogging platform - it's up to blogger.com (and, as a company, they have very little financial incentive to do anything).<br /><br />I came up with a fun little system to poison my site content when bots I didn't approve of happened by (it's not too hard to figure out which visitors are bots if you have full access to the log files) - you can see examples of what bots see here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.operator-speaking.com/non-existant?banned=poison&force_context=feed" rel="nofollow">pseudo-RSS feed</a><br /><br />... and this leaves the somewhat whimsical pastime of watching site scrapers publish complete gibberish.Z. Constantinehttp://blog.operator-speaking.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-24147168556550017912010-07-16T00:00:07.599-05:002010-07-16T00:00:07.599-05:00That's great to hear. A little less litter on ...That's great to hear. A little less litter on the web.Ed Kohlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14974241571519355684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-40512758844792974102010-07-15T18:34:27.094-05:002010-07-15T18:34:27.094-05:00Google has removed the whole blog!Google has removed the whole blog!Don Burlesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10019140822956554189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-35002827753702572622010-07-15T11:00:27.938-05:002010-07-15T11:00:27.938-05:00I love this story, and I think you dealt with it t...I love this story, and I think you dealt with it the right way. Some blogs post a line at the end of each post saying "If you aren't reading this on xxxxxxx.com, it's stolen content". Maybe a bit over the top, since 90% of the time, it will be readers on your own website reading that. But in your case, they wouldn't have cared because they weren't targeting human readers anyway.James MacAonghusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-20255493330584774982010-07-15T10:25:41.725-05:002010-07-15T10:25:41.725-05:00One interesting thing about that blog is that they...One interesting thing about that blog is that they somehow used HTML or CSS to cover up the banner at the top of the page. You know, that place with the "Report Abuse" link?<br /><br />So, yeah. Some clever stuff going on there, trying to get people to land there and click on affiliate links and ads. I wonder how much money something like that makes, in the end.crshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00002365742222680084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-19525548301994899492010-07-15T10:17:35.632-05:002010-07-15T10:17:35.632-05:00thanks for the down low.thanks for the down low.Prairie Chicken...https://www.blogger.com/profile/06669918949264861271noreply@blogger.com