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Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuume
by Loic 5y ago
Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website.
This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...
- axiolite 5y ago> my content was directly vacuumed This happens with the HTML contents just as easily. Perhaps just include a unique identifier in the text per client, and a link back to the source.
- crummy 5y ago> This happens with the HTML contents just as easily. On an individual scale, yes. But if you're a spammer and want to vaccuum up text from 1000 sites, you'll skip writing a scraper for individual sites (which may change their formatting later anyway) and just use reliably-formatted RSS feeds.
- pests 5y agoCorrect. To the point where most black hat tools that spammers use will have rss feed ingestion as the primary or only data ingestion method.
- axiolite 5y agoThat was probably true back in 2004, but today there are numerous reader view, full text converter, and advanced web spider projects that anybody can plug in and get the full text from at least 90% of web sites, with no extra effort.
- derekzhouzhen 5y agoUnethical people is going to do whatever they can. Life is much more enjoyable if you just ignore them and whatever shit they are going to do with the content you willingly shared with the world for free.
- noizejoy 5y ago> Life is much more enjoyable if … That sentence has widely different endings for different people.
- Lammy 5y ago> my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website For all its faults, this is something I have no shame invoking DMCA for. You still own the copyright on your writing even if you publish it for free online.