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I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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I love how so many of them are just saturated with buzzwords and typical empty suit jargon. I guess stupidity and lack of ethics go hand in hand.

You can search for "Corporate ipsum" on Google chrome to get an extension which create fill text with corporate buzzwords. My colleagues (non native anglophones) fell for it a few times watching at my mockups.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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I always feel like its a flash website at first :P But yeah, I didn't realize either so many just flat out copy website designs. I guess this is a pretty common thing now :(

It's _always_ been a common thing. Stuff like Google analytics just makes it way easier to tell that they're actually copying _you_.

Alright alright.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.

Assuming that the people who are copying this code are able to code themselves, wouldn't it be easy to find the problem and fix it? Unless there was some incredible code obfuscation.

If you broke it in such a way that it made their site massively unprofessional or completely unusable, then they'd be forced to either redesign their site or take it offline. Either of which results in those sites no longer feeding off copied code.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Ouch: "Your website is slower than 95% of all tested websites" with a 28.85s load time. - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/eDa8U8X2P/http://ideaware.co...

Funnily enough, their website loaded slower than the ones who were ripping it, so I was initially confused about what the argument was as the large background image took ~20s to load/push down the rest of the layout. The JS on the navigation never started working either.

The direct copying by other sites is definitely lame, but I don't see anything here I'd want to copy. The crazy load time makes the site almost unusable (as I write this, the page is frozen, and still loading... maybe use fewer http requests and compression?), and the design is nothing to write home about (it's decent though).

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#110

Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…

I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.

Hey, if we have execute of JS on all those clients, why not REDIRECT them to your site? Free traffic. All relevant.
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