Does anyone know about this site? It has my story (New Magus) on it (along with a ton of links to videos and other crap). It also emulates the general design of reading stories on SOL, only with all the crap they added. I'm not sure what's going on, but it appears as if they've copied the site and a huge number of stories just to trap people with the crap links. Any ideas or suggestions??
Looks like a complete site scrape done yesterday (or at least updated yesterday). Lazeez should be able to figure out what ID was used as they pulled the entire site. It seems to be working similar to how SOL works when you are logged out. I didn't try to login or create an ID. I think you can understand why!
Not sure if Lazeez can do anything given that the server is in Russia.
Lazeez should be able to figure out what ID was used as they pulled the entire site.
I know about that site.
It's a server that pulls pages off storiesonline and replaces every mention of storiesonline with their own and injects ads into it. It simply copies all the site without log in as it pulls pages on demand, so it's not an actual copy.
There is nothing that I can do about it unfortunately.
There is nothing that I can do about it unfortunately.
Is there a type of firewall you can install that would block their access?
If they can't see it they can't copy it.
Is there a type of firewall you can install that would block their access?
Tried, but they kept changing servers, so it's a cat and mouse game. I can't block everything...
I can't block everything...
Technically, you could, but that would make things "a bit" difficult for your paying customers. :)
Tried.
You can still inject surprise to visitor of that site:
Their page still load https://res.wlpc.com/css/t-classic.css but the referer contains:
https://wap4android.ru/home.php
so by varing content (.htaccess on res.wlpc.com):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://wap4android.ru/ [NC]
RewriteRule .css$ https://res.wlpc.com/css/nasty.css [R,L]
(I did not test these rule they come from stackoverflow)
Beware of the cpu cost.
Do not do that is there is any cache in front of your apache.
Also do not allow caching of /css/nasty.css or you may polute
legitimate visitor.
And finaly, that pirate can work around that easyly :(
And finaly, that pirate can work around that easyly :(
It's been a cat and mouse game since 2005.
It's been a cat and mouse game since 2005.
It's been a cat and mouse game since ... cats and mice first started playing? ')
Wow, it's scary how much of the SOL database they managed to hack. They even bothered with my stories :(
AJ
wap4android.ru
Most of the links are crap, or reroute to crap. Caution is advised if you start messing about, you should be sure to have a robust anti-virus.
A sandbox would be even smarter.