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Update from site "Google’s team has tracked down my test site, most likely using the source code I shared and de-indexed the whole domain."
They don't up/down ranking individual sites for stuff like this. They've probably implemented back-hijack detection for the whole web
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Copying someone elses site and tricking their users to use your copy is a copyright violation and fraud. Nothing cool about it.
Your statement is far too broad and lacks context. Where is this a violation and where is it considered fraud? There must be some countries where this isn't the case or at least where the article and non-commercial use of the technique are considered to be mitigating circumstances. Also, who doesn't find it cool? You don't seem to be saying that what is described in the article isn't cool, you seem to be making a bro…
It's still an interesting hack, so good to see it being talked about. But it is not ethical and definitely illegal in almost any jurisdiction.
It seems my habbit to open google links in new tabs with right click have more meaning now. I initialy used this to avoid referal information.
Anyway, using a new tab for each new website you visit is the way to go I think.
1 Years years ago when I was learning web development I bought a TLD and just copy-pasted Amazon’s log in page to just check how it works. Amazon somehow found out about this and Google punished that TLD after that incident and it just couldn’t go up in rankings after that. If I remember correctly they had even put that TLD on sites that report/list “phishing” sites so if you Googled about that TLD you would also get…
You bought a TLD when learning web development? That seems extreme.
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Yet another reason to browse with JS disabled by default.
In that case, just not using useless thing like "back" button will be perfectly fine. A good website don't need using this button. And to navigate between websites, using a tab for each website is fine. Especially when comparing results from Google.
Hi everyone! I did this. It was just a random cool idea I wanted to try. It worked a little too well and I quickly moved it to a disposable site to test if the page will get penalised by Google. I got busy with other things and forgot about it. When I bumped into it again I decided to write about it, for two reasons: 1) To me it's hard to believe that Chrome would allow for this to happen in the first place and 2) th…
Yay, you misled users and stole content! Seems like you are actually proud of this. I gather you realize this and did this in the best “white hat” spirit, although that’s not really what I get from your blog.
Update from site "Google’s team has tracked down my test site, most likely using the source code I shared and de-indexed the whole domain."
They don't up/down ranking individual sites for stuff like this. They've probably implemented back-hijack detection for the whole web
There's no manual penalty notice.
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Yet another reason to browse with JS disabled by default.
I wish... even GitHub won't work properly without JavaScript enabled these days.
This is unlike major competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket), which are completely broken.