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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

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Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

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post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

Sure man no problem. The code for my theme is here BTW with credits To your original blog

https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#152

It's an interesting thing to think about, that someone can make a request to your website and you pay for it. This is not how the mail works, where someone needs to buy a stamp to spam you.

Most of my junk mail does not have stamps because the spammers drop it off in pallets at the post office and just have it delivered to everyone.

The USPS is like a reverse garbage service.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#153
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

It appears to be a serif font and a border top. That's all it is? Am I missing something.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#154
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

Despite how it sounds, I ask this with zero judgment and pure curiosity. Why do you care?

Cause it’s his special.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#155
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

They look similar at a glance (border-top + Calluna font), so he might have taken inspiration from yours, but doesn't seem to have used any of your assets - the styles are clearly different and based on the WP 'BlankSlate' theme. (my personal blog had a top border like that a decade ago, when styles on the body were a novelty :))

I took inspiration but I didn’t know he was sharing the code for is blog

https://github.com/napolux/coding.napolux.com/

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#156

It's an interesting thing to think about, that someone can make a request to your website and you pay for it. This is not how the mail works, where someone needs to buy a stamp to spam you.

My office still gets spam faxes to this day. The paper and toner only add up to a few cents a month, so it's not worth doing anything about. I knew a realtor that had a sheet of black paper with a few choice expletives written on it that they would send back to spammers. There was an art to taping it into a loop so it would continuously feed. This was a few decades ago when a the spam faxes could cost more than a sta…

My desk phone at an old job used to get dialed by a fax machine. Not fun picking that up. I redirected it to a virtual fax line and it turns out it was a local clinic faxing medical records. I faxed them back with some message about you have the wrong number but they never stopped.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#157
post #121

I think sending back a `429 Too Many Requests` can solve this. Unless you want to block their IPs completely, which I doubt you'd want to do.

A well made crawler that would support 429 codes isn't likely to have this problem in the first place.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#158
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

Despite how it sounds, I ask this with zero judgment and pure curiosity. Why do you care?

I can only guess at motivations, but holistically people need to enforce their license terms or they lose their teeth.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#159
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

Design layman here, switching between the two sites the top bar looks similar (it's just a solid line) except a different color and slightly different height. I don't see other similarities or assets coming from your site? Can you explain this request; I'm not sure two sites both using a blank horizontal rule across the top is something I would personally call out as similar.

Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website

#160
post #140

Hi Napolux, It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website ( https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ , source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog ). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?

Despite how it sounds, I ask this with zero judgment and pure curiosity. Why do you care?

The author probably cares about either copy-left or the right to tinker. Some people believe it's important and others don't.

Basically any derivative product out of GPL3 code needs to either be open-source/copy-left, or if it uses the code as a library needs to let end users substitute that library for their own version.

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