Feed Scraping & Post Theft

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Kenneth Moore just gave me the heads up that my blog posts, and his, and I think I saw a tiny part of one from Aerelonian have been stolen for use at a Feed Scraper/Content Scraper, a term I hadn't heard more than a few hours ago but speaks for itself.

First thing to protect yourself from all sites of this nature whether you've seen that particular site or not - Blogger defaults your Site Feed to "Full" - Change this to "Short" or "None" (Settings, Site Feed and it's the first option).



Here's this post, as scraped with Site Feed limited to "Short"

Second, and I haven't tried this yet, read this, and this and some of the links in each. Should work against sites you know of but until you've found them you'll have to resort to limiting your Feed to just a part of your post.

Here's a site with information specific to Blogger (a lot of the sites above refer to other blogging sites like WordPress).

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Thanks for the advice Dave. I asked them firmly but nicely to remove all my posts and they were gone within 15 minutes. I don't approve of what they do, but at least they co-operated and took down the posts when asked.