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Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by smaudet on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:11AM (#33956285)
Is the primary motivator to do this?

I'm curious if they are stealing anything else, e.g. are they selling ads/tracking, do they replace order forms with their own...

Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by mkoryak on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:16AM (#33956370)
because I asked them to stop doing it, and they didn't. Technically they were stealing my bandwidth.

Also to teach them an important lesson about the internet.

Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by Firmwarrior on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:02PM (#33959428)
haha, they're just lucky you didn't introduce them to Goatse
Re:Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do a... by mkoryak on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:24PM (#33960559)
well actually...

there was another time a site hotlinked to a js file. After asking them to stop, i found that they had a contact form with a homebrew captcha which created the letters image like http://evilsite.com/cgi-bin/captcha.jpg?q=ansr

A little while later, their captcha form had a hidden input appended with the correct answer value, and the word to solve was changed to a new 4 letter word from a dictionary of interesting 4 letter words. The form still worked because of the hidden input. I might have changed the name on the "real" input also.