Timeline for A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
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| Jun 30, 2023 at 4:45 | comment | added | Niko O | @Стас That... doesn't really answer my question. Like... of course the domain of a website that isn't e.g. stackoverflow.com will be different from stackoverflow.com. I'm asking how to discern a proxy (i.e. forwarding requests to the real site on the fly) from a non-proxy (i.e. displaying a copy of data that was scraped from the real site over time). | |
| Jun 28, 2023 at 21:52 | comment | added | Стас | @NikoO you can look at the domain name. Proxy site will have a different name | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 14:34 | comment | added | Mast | Doubtful it still makes sense to report them, since SE won't do anything with the reports in the vast majority of cases. | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 9:46 | comment | added | Niko O | How would it be possible for me to tell whether or not a site is a proxy, without waiting to spot a change on the real site and trying to spot that same change on the fake site? | |
| May 14, 2022 at 11:57 | comment | added | Mark K Cowan | If there's a list somewhere of such proxy/fake sites, we could at least add it to our search-result-filtering browser extensions | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 15:28 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @BernhardBarker Neither really. A proxy is essentially a site that acts as a middleman. You send a request to them, they send the request to us. When they get the response, they send it back to you. It gives the appearance of our site being exactly duplicated on their own domain. | |
| Jan 15, 2022 at 0:18 | history | rollback | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog |
Rollback to Revision 29 - "owner" has a specific meaning in Stack Exchange, the owner of the post (i.e. the one who can take actions like delete it themselves, see close reason details on it, etc.)
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| Jan 14, 2022 at 21:56 | history | edited | kirjosieppo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Are copyright holders really "owners"? Let’s settle with "author".
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| Oct 20, 2021 at 20:58 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2021 at 20:50 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2021 at 20:32 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Emphasize that we are no longer interested in receiving scraper reports. The option in the contact form may or may not disappear in the future.
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| S Mar 28, 2021 at 17:56 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
word spelling mistake
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:21 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackexchange.com/ with https://stackexchange.com/
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
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| Jan 18, 2020 at 21:40 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 5, 2019 at 19:33 | history | edited | Rainbacon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changing link to CC-by-SA v4.0 since SE updated to the new version of the license
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| Aug 15, 2018 at 18:36 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Make this sound less like SE is the almighty being of scraper demands
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| Jun 14, 2018 at 5:34 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The wording here still sounded too legal advice-y
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 15:42 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Google no longer provides the utility to report scrapers outranking you, so it's otherwise useless information (not to mention, we never get outranking reports anyways).
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| Aug 25, 2016 at 16:01 | history | edited | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 8:38 | history | edited | Nemo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Some resources for authors
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| Feb 2, 2016 at 6:34 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Correct AdSense reporting link. Also, let's not make the motivation cutting their income.
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| Feb 2, 2016 at 6:21 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2015 at 9:57 | history | edited | Nemo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Google ads
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| Nov 28, 2015 at 22:00 | history | edited | Nemo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add copyright complaint
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 1:56 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Google scraper form is offline.
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 19:00 | history | edited | hairboatStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 18:35 | history | edited | animusonStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Scraper reporting revamp! Let the information flow!
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 22:01 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by animusonStaffMod | ||
| Jul 30, 2015 at 11:24 | history | edited | JNatStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
unfortunately, we now get enough of these reports to justify making SCRAPERs their own category/reason
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| Apr 10, 2015 at 15:40 | history | edited | PopsStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
clarified category since multiple people have asked about it
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| Aug 3, 2014 at 22:29 | vote | accept | Pops | ||
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Mar 6, 2014 at 0:25 | history | edited | doppelgreener | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
because some don't recognise what this refers to - they don't find a form and this doesn't mention the 'contact us' link (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/224295/#comment731990_224295)
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| Nov 4, 2013 at 1:05 | history | edited | Adam LearStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
contact form > team@ because automatic spam filtering in Gmail is a thing
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| Nov 1, 2013 at 16:23 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2013 at 20:06 | history | answered | PopsStaff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |