WordPress Plugin: AntiLeech

auf Asymptomatic findet sich ein neues WordPress-Plugin namens AntiLeech, das Contentdiebe wie Bitacle.org ein Bein stellen soll:

AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. No, it does better than that. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site (and mine, too, ok?) and sends it only to them. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you“€™ve turned the tables on them. You“€™re actually using the sploggers to promote your own site… AntiLeech also uses a trick to detect when new User-Agents have collected and displayed your posts. You may see a little „€œAntiLeech“€? graphic in your feed output. This graphic helps AntiLeech collect User-Agents that you might want to block. AntiLeech will tell you on what page if first saw the User-Agent, if it can, to help you better make the decision to block that User-Agent or not.

Zusätzlich wird auch die robots.txt angepasst, wenn auch einige dieser Bots die „Regeln“ nicht beachten (built-in Verhalten quasi :).

Auf Bedarf kann das Plugin so eingestellt werden, dass man keine Backlinks produziert, wenn man aus ethischen Gründen keine „Hilfe“ von Splogs haben möchte oder wenn man befürchtet, selbst als Splogger vermeintlich identifiziert zu werden.

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Bei mir dürfte wohl dieses Plugin nicht funktionieren, da ich alle Feed-Anfragen auf Feedburner via Redirect umbiege. Mittels dem Ordered-List Plugin. Owen, der Autor schreibt dazu:
I think that the Ordered List Feedburner plugin would interefere, since it would redirect everything that“€™s not Feedburner to a Feedburner URL. However, having looked at the code for that plugin, there is no freaking way I would ever run that on my server. From what I can tell, I can reset your site“€™s feedburner redirect to whatever I want with about 2 minutes of from-scratch coding. In fact, if you want me to write code into this plugin to use it with Feedburner that does what the Ordered List plugin does, I“€™ll make that a priority for the next release. This is a clear example of the need for plugin peer-review. Yikes

Hä? Dass das AntiLeech-Plugin nicht geht, wenn man das Feedburner-Plugin einsetzt, dürfte klar sein. Doch was meint Owen damit, dass er den Redirect umbiegen kann? Geht ja nur, wenn er an die .htaccess herankommt. kratz…

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