helleborine
msg:4497030 | 8:13 pm on Sep 18, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Blocking Amazon's web services also blocks Loveit.com
Aside from some slight slowing down of page delivery, I believe there is little to lose from blocking Amazon servers from accessing your content.
I have this list:
Deny from 8.18.144.0/23
Deny from 23.20.0.0/14
Deny from 46.51.128.0/17
Deny from 46.137.0.0/16
Deny from 50.16.0.0/14
Deny from 50.112.0.0/16
Deny from 54.240.0.0/12
Deny from 67.202.0.0/18
Deny from 72.44.32.0/19
Deny from 75.101.128.0/17
Deny from 79.125.0.0/17
Deny from 96.127.0.0/17
Deny from 103.4.8.0/21
Deny from 107.20.0.0/14
Deny from 122.248.192.0/18
Deny from 174.129.0.0/16
Deny from 175.41.128.0/17
Deny from 176.32.64.0/18
Deny from 176.34.0.0/16
Deny from 177.71.128.0/17
Deny from 184.72.0.0/15
Deny from 184.169.128.0/17
Deny from 204.236.128.0/17
Deny from 216.182.224.0/20
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ken_b
msg:4497130 | 11:17 pm on Sep 18, 2012 (gmt 0) |
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Pinterest [NC]
RewriteRule !^robots\.txt$ - [F] |
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Not sure I understand this, do I need to place something in my robots.txt also?
Like this?
User-agent: Pinterest
Disallow: /
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lucy24
msg:4497175 | 2:45 am on Sep 19, 2012 (gmt 0) |
robots.txt is voluntary. .htaccess (or config file) is deaf to all appeals.
The RewriteRule quoted here is one way of exempting robots.txt from rules targeting unwanted visitors. So they can't say "I wanted to obey robots.txt, honest I did, but they wouldn't let me see it!" Another is to put robots.txt into a <Files> envelope to cover anyone blocked by core-level Deny from... directives.
But I don't think it's really necessary in this situation, because how many .txt files have you got? In mod_rewrite, most visitors can be blocked by extension: either .html (or whatever you normally use, including / for directories) or jpe?g|gif|png, depending on whether they are after pages or pictures.
For those just joining us: The ordinary anti-hotlinking routines won't work with pinterest, because their image-harvesting is coded to look as if your own page is the referer.
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nomis5
msg:4499296 | 12:12 pm on Sep 24, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Almost all of my recent photos have the website name clearly but discreetly on the photo.
One person I investigated had pinned around 40 of my photos to their board and I love it. 40 photos with my website url on them plus 40 links back.
I started to copyright the pictures when I noticed that .ru websites (plus a few .com) were scraping entire sites, pictures and content.
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chrisv1963
msg:4517456 | 8:25 am on Nov 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
The | 2. Blocking Pinterest by user agent in your .htaccess file. |
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method works great for me.
I was wondering: is there a htaccess method to make them pin a replacement image, similar to a hotlinking replacement image?
As hotlinking replacement image I use a large attractive and colorful banner with my domain name. I'm sure it drives some type-in traffic to my site. It would be great to get this one pinned instead of my pictures.
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lucy24
msg:4517461 | 9:07 am on Nov 9, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You could replace the [F] with a rewrite to your image of choice. You would have to allow them to get the page itself, and only apply the rewrite to requests for images.
This only works if the human pinner has the (real) image in their cache, so they don't realize the wrong thing is getting pinned when they look at the preview page. Otherwise they would just cancel the whole process.
Option 4. (from my own htaccess) is
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|gif|png)$ /pictures/smallgifs/onedot.gif [L]
where onedot.gif is a 1x1 transparent gif that's used for a variety of purposes. People can pin to their heart's content, but it won't do them any good because nobody will see anything.
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Sgt_Kickaxe
msg:4530266 | 8:40 pm on Dec 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Weeee, Google shoved a good percentage of my images into the explicit category recently despite their being as non-explicit as a tea kettle so this is the perfect time for me to make image changes. My url will now appear on all my images and my htaccess file just got a wee bit bigger.
Begone bots, scrapers and mashups - Go please your shareholders with someone else's content, preferably your own.
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seoskunk
msg:4530291 | 10:28 pm on Dec 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Been here before haven't we....
Isn't this google's problem ?
Blocking ip's to solve this seems like we are not getting to the root of the problem.
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incrediBILL
msg:4530311 | 11:13 pm on Dec 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Isn't this google's problem ?
Blocking ip's to solve this seems like we are not getting to the root of the problem. |
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Has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with Pinterest.
The object is to stop scraping and unauthorized usage by Pinheads in Pinterest (not Google) and several methods, including blocking IPs, are included.
Proactive prevention of copyright infringement is time well spent vs. wasting time with CopyScape, DMCA, etc, after the fact.
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seoskunk
msg:4530315 | 11:24 pm on Dec 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Has nothing to do with Google and everything to do with Pinterest. |
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My bad, I thought this was referring to Pinterest outranking certain sites in google results.
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ZydoSEO
msg:4530484 | 10:06 pm on Dec 22, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I say serve them up a little #*$! everytime they request one of your images!
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ken_b
msg:4559063 | 11:07 pm on Mar 27, 2013 (gmt 0) |
this: | <meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" /> |
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Doesn't validate in <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
If I change end tag to drop the " / and just use ">
will the meta still block pinning?
[I posted this in the HTML forum too, but maybe it belongs here.]
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ken_b
msg:4559078 | 12:35 am on Mar 28, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I got the answer I needed in the other forum.
Thanks.
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zork
msg:4562807 | 6:36 pm on Apr 8, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Maybe I'm just a little chaotic/neutral, but I like @ZydoSEO's idea. I'm not opposed to Pinterest scraping my sites (see my Pinterest copyright infringement thread) but I do respect the right of a site owner to reduce, prevent and even fight back against unwanted use of their site. So here are a list of ideas:
- cause Pinterest crawler to hang somehow, using their system resources
- cause Pin crawler to grab the wrong image, preferably one with undesired content like skin diseases, etc
- cause a never ending redirect loop of some sort
- redirect to a large site that is known to go after copyright violators
- automail a DMCA takedown notice
The last one is my favorite, but creating something of a random mix of the above would probably be fun.
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helleborine
msg:4562826 | 7:17 pm on Apr 8, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| cause Pin crawler to grab the wrong image |
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I have this in place, the substituted image is a copyright warning.
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