• Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    5 months ago

    In Firefox, you can bypass most of this bullshit by holding down shift. There are some other tricks the website uses, but disabling Javascript ( in uBlock) bypasses all of the weird restrictions this site tries to throw at you.

    I think this has to do with this article:

    Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.

    I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.

    The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.

    As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.

    I have no idea why someone would steal from a website that reviews audio “setups” like these. The website doesn’t even have working HTTPS. I’m guessing it’s all just automated ad fraud/SEO hacking websites copying random stuff, and the author treating that as a serious copyright offence.

    It looks like this weird website also stole the author’s blog post, probably to get better ranking on Google. I can’t find a way to reach the stolen review from the front page, so it’s probably a Google SEO hack. That website is full of them as well. I would probably be pissed off about these audiophile scammers copying my stuff for cheap SEO hacking as well, but a right clicking script isn’t going to change any of this, as the scrapers are probably running modified browser engines rather than doing all of this work manually.