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Re: My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

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post #3

recommendation: respond with fake data, based on source IP. the problem will take care of itself.

this is probably better than banning their source ip, as it will take longer to detect and piss off their customers.

also, report them to adsense and anyone else serving their ads.

Re: My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

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post #7

You found out the right first step yourself: Block the source IP address. Sure it will turn into a game of whack-a-mole with them changing their IP but eventually, their customers will get fed up with their downtime. Second idea: Javascript redirect all of your pages to your own subdomain. Again, its just a step in an arms race, but this would be a little too hard/expensive to take to court. You can win an arms race…

For now I have added a news post with a link to the proper site and am debating between blocking the IP or delivering a static page with a link to the proper URL or a javascript redirect to the proper site.

Re: My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

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Re: My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

#19

Report them to their web host and the ad networks they use. Don't troll them with different content just go for the kill - some accounts like AdSense carry lifetime bans.

I have reported it to the abuse contact of the web host, colocation provider, and cloudflare. I am however not expecting a response in a timely manner from any of them. Luckily they are stripping out the ad tags before displaying by site so it shouldn't affect Ad Sense.

Do you know who their web host is? If so, block the whole Class B from fetching your site.

Re: My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

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post #17

Detect their IP and 301 their requests to goatse. Or something worse, if you're bent like that. :)

goatse as it was is no more. They had planned to offer vanity email addresses, but I am not sure if it took off. It looks like they're doing something with dogecoin now.

But an image search should help you find the image.

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