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132 questions linked to/from A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
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Report sites that use Stack Exchange content without following attribution rules here [duplicate]
NB The following is a community-generated list of websites that republish Stack Exchange content without attributing it properly. It is no longer being maintained, because the procedure for reporting ...
Community wiki
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Report high-Google-ranking Stack Exchange content copiers here [duplicate]
NB The following is a community-generated list of web pages that display Stack Exchange content and rank higher in search results than the original SE posts they copy. It is no longer being maintained,...
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Did anyone notice that some sites seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts? [duplicate]
Such as:
http://tech.e freedom.com/Question/1-2837475/Jetty-offline-documentation
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Is developerquestion.com just a ripoff? [duplicate]
Is developerquestion.com a Stack Exchange ripoff, or is there some valid connection to SE? I.e. does it use the Stack Exchange framework (it really looks very similar)?
Interestingly, it mirrors all ...
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What is stackoverflow.xluat.com? [duplicate]
I found the website http://stackoverflow.xluat.com/questions (edit: do not go there, the site is possibly malicious now) and it seems to be the responsive version of Stack Overflow.
But I cannot find ...
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Quora users (bots?) are copying a significant amount of Stack Exchange questions to Quora, without proper attribution [duplicate]
Quora users (bots?) are copying a significant amount of Stack Exchange questions to Quora, without proper attribution. It seems quite systematic.
Examples from https://money.stackexchange.com:
Are ...
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What is comanswer.com and why is it copying stackoverflow.com content? [duplicate]
I just did a search for "find out how much memory a python program takes" on Google and came up with two hits that contain the same content:
www.comanswer.com/question/python-script-knows-how-much-...
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How to report sites/users that are plagiarising SO questions on other forums? [duplicate]
I did a web search for my question and found that my exact SO question was plagiarised in a forum post by someone else. My question was unique and this is clearly a plagiarism of my question.
But ...
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Someone copy-pasted my Database Administrators Stack Exchange site question on YouTube [duplicate]
I asked a question on the Database Administrators Stack Exchange site a few days back:
MySQL 8 query doesn't prefer index with higher cardinality
Today, I randomly found this video on YouTube.
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Techqa.info - is this site related to Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Consider this question on Stack Overflow,
Morphia Interface for List of enum does not work (unmarshalling)
The same question is on techqa.info.
Morphia Interface for List of enum does not work (...
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Someone is copying SO,is SO licensed? [duplicate]
Hello,
There was a question on SO(link) where the author linked us to his chinese copy of SO.
What is going to be done about that,is SO licensed?
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Is this a mirror site affiliated with SO or a clone? [duplicate]
Found this thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4117659/problem-uploading-ipad-4-2-app-to-apple
... --> here, with an ad in front. http://www.expert.tc/topic.php?id=93952
Just wondering...
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Fake Stack Overflow site on http://stackverflow.com/ - illegal? [duplicate]
stackverflow-dot-com has recently been updated to be a clone of the real Stack Overflow site, and most likely steals information.
Is this website illegally using the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange ...
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SE posts appearing on non-SE sites [duplicate]
I'm new here. Yesterday I posted a couple of electrical questions in DIY. Later in the day I discovered, by accident when searching for some related material, that my questions also appeared on ...
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What to do when you find copied SF, SU or SO content on other websites? [duplicate]
Recently, while answering a Server Fault question, I stumbled upon a copied Server Fault question and answer at what looks like a content aggregation or text scraping site.
Here's the original thread:...
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Puppin.org seems to be scraping SO content [duplicate]
news.puppin.org seems to be scraping right into a wordpress blog, and ranking in searches too. I ran across this link:
http://news.puppin.org/question/non-relational-db-which-one-is-the-right-choice-...
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Do we have any conditions for someone using an SE post as a source? [duplicate]
I just found the following article.
https://www.baeldung.com/executable-jar-with-maven
Which looks like it’s heavily based on
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23986765/330457
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Why is my question appearing on other websites? [duplicate]
I submitted a question on Stackoverflow: Python - C++ - Reading in 16bit .wav files
Googling last night, I came across this post: queforum.com - C++ reading in 16bit .wav files
1) Why is my ...
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Why are there fake Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
I recently came across these links doing a search on Google:
How to expand selection to include enclosing element in Sublime Text 3?
http://earthwithsun.com/questions/668730/how-to-expand-selection-...
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Report crypto mining phishing site of Stack Overflow and NSFW ads [duplicate]
After browsing Google Search looking for a specific answer, I ran into a phishing website or similar (first page in Google search). It looks exactly the same as the legitimate Stack Overflow site....
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DuckDuckGo directed me to a rip-off site "stackovernet.com" in first page result [duplicate]
Here is an example the rip-off is apparently monetizing through add (sometime even pr0n).
Is this site already known and under investigation?
Rip-off : https://gis.stackovernet.com/fr/q/9964
Original:
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This YouTube channel is creating videos based on SO questions. Is this ok? [duplicate]
Check out this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZL4eLD7a30Fa8QI-sRi_g/videos
Each of these videos shows a woman presenting a problem. It's the same generic opening and closing each time ...
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What is Stack Exchange's position on stackanswers.net (Askru) [duplicate]
https://stackanswers.net seems like a shameless copy of Stack Overflow. I could not find any good information about the site and it looks to be everything but legitimate. Is the Stack Exchange ...
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Does shimosh.com violate "attribution required"? [duplicate]
I was googling about Perl 6 regex, realising I previously asked a question about this, and in the google results, with the same page title I found:
http://www.simosh.com/article/dfaceeij-quantifier-...
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YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange [duplicate]
There is this horrible YouTube channel scraping Q&A from Stack Exchange without attribution to the author of either question or answers, and no links to the original post.
Stack Exchange licenses ...
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Is https://stackoverrun.com/ related to Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Recently, I have been getting more and more search results from different search engines that all point to https://stackoverrun.com/. But the original articles that are shown there seem to come from ...
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Where to report if you find a site exactly like Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I found a site which is working exactly like Stack Overflow.
Should I report that to Stack Exchange? If so, how?
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Fake Stack Overflow clone sites [duplicate]
Are the clone sites listed below affiliated with Stack Overflow and if they aren't, is it possible to get them shut down? They look like phishing websites to me.
https://krom.cryptoo.online/
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An unresolved question on stackoverflow was rebloged by random person [duplicate]
I posted a question to Stack Overflow regarding the Android Camera API's implementation within AOSP. The question was about a custom View called PreviewFrameLayout that they use for maintaining the ...
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I've found an exact copy of a Stack Exchange site answer without giving any credit, is that legal? [duplicate]
I was searching for answers for one of many daily issues we all normally have and found something quite odd. After finding this answer Stack Overflow, I've stumbled upon this one, which is an exact ...