What to do when someone clones your site?

Re:What to do when someone clones your site? by talldayo on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:32PM (#41392599)

Cope. HTML and CSS is delivered client-side, for the past 10-odd years any so-inclined asshole dev could slurp up and reproduce your website instantly.

> But how do we protect our work from being copied? What can we do to ensure our original work isn’t taken and used by others?

Simply put; you keep it to yourself, and never share it with another living soul. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

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Re:What to do when someone clones your site? by bob1029 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:40PM (#41392691)

> Simply put; you keep it to yourself, and never share it with another living soul.

Server-side rendering and mandatory logins can go a long way toward making it painful for others to slurp up your IP.

If you build your products the way all the cool kids have been the last ~half decade (i.e., shipping the entire product & business logic to the client), then you may find this kind of frustration inevitable.

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Re:What to do when someone clones your site? by aiagents_dir on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:08PM (#41393003)

valid point. i will need to put more effort in security to minimaze impact of the cloning.

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Re:What to do when someone clones your site? by beardyw on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:12PM (#41393040)

> Simply put; you keep it to yourself, and never share it with another living soul.

Hey, that's what I do. Also cuts down maintenance, complaints, cost, judgementalism, you name it.

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