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?
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
#152It'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.
The USPS is like a reverse garbage service.
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#153Hi 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?
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#154Hi 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?
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#155Hi 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 :))
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#156It'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…
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#157I 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.
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#158Hi 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?
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#159Hi 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?
Re: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
#160Hi 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?
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.