Blogspot and it’s splogger-friendly environ, is about to be banned, at a name and IP level1 from accessing any content, or attempting to link back (or out). That includes links, trackbacks, pings and, well everything.
I will also, no longer link to any blogpsot hosted entry, no matter how well written. This is the price paid when a hosting service fails to maintain control over spam.
I present exhibit a, taken from statistics earlier today.
So, if you, dear reader, use blogspot, I suggest you write your provider and (strongly) protest their apparent lack of interest in curtailing content theft and spam sites being created, which are increasing at a monumental rate.
- I have a growing list of IP addresses used (↩)
≡ This is a journal entry relating to the topics of No Tags.
Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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Jul 31st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
I agree that blogspot is riddled with spam … but what about Fake Steve?
Jul 31st, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Fake Steve.. damn.
You have presented a valid point there.
Aug 1st, 2007 at 5:29 am
What makes the whole Blogspot situation so frustrating is that Google, with a mere flick of the wrist, could easily eliminated 99% of all the spam blogs by destroying the incentive. Remove the ability to embed Adsense ads on Blogspot blogs (Why would one need to embed Ads in a free service anyway? Wordpress.com doesn’t allow that.) and watch them fade away.
Not happening though.
It’s an extreme step you describe but I definitely understand. There are some great Blogspot blogs, but they are the extreme minority.
Aug 1st, 2007 at 7:31 am
› What makes the whole Blogspot situation so frustrating is that Google, with a mere flick of the wrist, could easily eliminated 99% of all the spam blogs by destroying the incentive.
Precisely, they (Google) don’t because they profit from it. Why remove something that lines the back pocket?
Is it a bit harsh? Probably.. Fake Steve is one of (at most) three blogspot blogs I actually read.
Aug 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
Removing AdSense wouldn’t help. There’s other similar ad services, you know.
Google can’t block them all, and wasting their time trying to block them all would be a disservice to users.
Aug 3rd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
> Removing AdSense wouldn’t help. There’s other similar ad services, you know.
You’ll note I pointed out the entirely bogus specifically designed to steal content. Advertising on these sites is often against the Adsense rules and is entirely designed to game Google.
Blogspot makes that an extremely trivial process.