Somewhat related on the topic of blogging. I've recently lost a lot of motivation to publish things on the web after I found that sites like Laptrinhx exist tha

Somewhat related on the topic of blogging. I've recently lost a lot of motivation to publish things on the web after I found that sites like Laptrinhx exist that fraudulently monetize on my content. They blatantly copy all content, regardless of copyright and licensing, slap adverts on it and then add insult to injury by telling you "how they can't produce awesome content without ads" if you use an adblocker. They also seem to often rank higher on search engines than my own site. Here's someone else that had the same experience: https://www.dcac.com/blog/imitation-is-not-a-form-of-flattery-after-all-fck-laptrinhx https://www.dcac.com/blog/imitation-is-not-a-form-of-flatter... Obviously they don't publish any contact details. They use Cloudflare, so you can't see where the server is hosted. Cloudflare won't do anything about it - they just forward your report, personal details and all, to the owner of the site. They use Feedly to get content, so you can't even block their crawler without screwing over legit subscribers on Feedly. The best I can do is block their referrer for hot-linked images. In my 15 years of blogging there have always been people that were re-publishing my content. I'm okay with that - my blog is under the CC-Non Commercial license. I take it as a cost of having a blog that there will always be some people that will ignore the license terms. However Laptrinhx and similar sites seem to have taken this to an industrial scale. Now I feel like I'm just a cog lining someone else's pockets for free.