Someone Is Impersonating This Personal Blog, and Nobody Will Help
Someone's Impersonating This Blog
A blogger discovered that mataroa.site is serving a scraped, outdated copy of his personal blog, complete with watermarked images and hidden links to a cloning tool. The fake site impersonates both him and the Mataroa platform. He reported it to Namecheap and Cloudflare, but neither seems willing to act, leaving him with little recourse beyond documenting the incident and warning readers.
So if neither evil corporation cares to do anything, I guess I can just get fucked.
- dead_hn_theory
The CEO (or ex-CEO?) of Cloudflare is an HN native. He should be able to help.
- Keegs
What’s the purpose of cloning a website like this? Is the idea to add links to other sites that get ranked marginally higher if the fake site gets popular? Because even if you cloned 1000 websites, I can’t imagine it making a big difference.
- BubbleRings
> It should be obvious this isn't a high-value website.
Ah, but every time I've seen your blog, it was on the front page of Hacker News!