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It’s an easy way to make money. Scrape a popular site like Stack overflow or Wikipedia and add a bunch of advertisements. One of the many ways that scum ruin t

• didericis 5y ago
  Wonder if there’s any way to get advertisers to veto scraped content sites. Not really in their incentive to boycott eyeballs, but if advertisers were actively avoiding those sites, it’d dry up the incentive to make them. This could backfire, but fining advertisers that show up on those sites might work. The difficulty would be all the claim verification and process of determining what exactly is a “scraped site”, and backfire scenario could be another hurdle for non established sites/more centralization of content. But if you targeted the advertisers rather than the sites themselves, the advertising networks would be incentivized to do that identification themselves.
  • penteract 5y ago
    Contacting the advertisers to tell them that being shown on those sites makes you want to avoid their products might work, although that would involve not blocking the ads.