Once upon a time, I served all the static content base64-xored with a session key on the backend, and decrypted the content on the front-end with JS.
Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
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Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might I suggest a spin on this: instead of blocking the IPs, consider serving up different content to those IPs. You could make a page that shames their domain name for stealing content. You could make a redirect page that redirects people to your website. Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content. I think it would discourage them from playing the cat and mouse game with you and fixing it by getting…
I've tried this with zip bombs, but I can't tell how well it worked out.
Did the same things for spam bots :p
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once you have their IP addresses you can make them serve anything you want. Set your imagination free. For starters: copyright-infringing material.
Unless you hold the necessary rights to the copyrighted material, that would make you a copyright infringer yourself.
How would they prove that when they label every content as it was their own?
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
In casual conversation, I would never interpret most as being solely more than half. However, it seems like perhaps most people agree with you :) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-eq...
In my entirely casual understanding of English most means the set that has more members than any other. When the comparison is binary (sites that work vs sites that don't) then "more than half" is both necessary and sufficient as a definition. When comparing more than two options most could be significantly less than half (e.g. if I have two red balls, and one ball each of blue, purple, green, orange, pink, and yello…
In retrospect, the never in my previous comment was certainly an overstatement. While I agree with your reasoning, there is often a distinction between technically correct use of language, and what the hearer is likely to understand from what is said.
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 5. Instead of banning them, return fake content (fake titles and fake images etc) if proxy is detected OR the ip is flagged. > 6. Don't ban the flagged ip's. She/He's gonna find another one. Make them angry and their user's angry so they give up on you. There's a popular blog that no longer gets linked on HN. The author didn't like the discussions HN had around his writing, so any visitors with HN as the referer ar…
Does anyone not have their referer header supressed or faked?
I have never considered faking or suppressing my referer header. I don't know why I would care. I suspect I'm in the company of well over 99% of all internet users.
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#286> 3) Add some JavaScript to redirect to the original domain-name - They are stripping all JS.
Make your site only work with JS.. Easy.
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you hold the necessary rights to the copyrighted material, that would make you a copyright infringer yourself.
How would they prove that when they label every content as it was their own?
Presumably they'll tell the copyright holder that sue them where they got it from, and provide evidence for that, and then the copyright holders will (also) sue the original source.
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#288Setup Cloudflare on the domain and turn on “bot fight mode”. If the TLS ciphers the client proposes for negotiation doesn’t align with the client’s User-Agent they get a CAPTCHA. I would suspect that whoever is doing this proxy-mirroring isn’t smart enough to ensure the TLS ciphers align with the User-Agent they’re passing through.
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Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#289Kill their ad ranking by inserting explicit words into the content body only porn sites use (like get the categories/some video titles from pornhub). Google only shows results from adult sites when the search string also has explicit words in it.
Re: Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
#290Implement a reverse swearword filter for their IP.