There is No End to the Ways Lazy People Try to Make Money ...

by sbucciarel Banned
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I was looking through my referring urls for my men's online magazine and saw a bunch of shortened gibberish urls, so I checked them all out.

They were sites that had put my site into their frame with a big, ugly yellow adsense block at the top. Made my site look like trash and if anyone is going to benefit financially from the site, it's going to me, not some lazy, scamming jackass without enough brains in his head to do his own work to make money.

This kind of crap gets so discouraging. This month I ran across around 6 or more sites whose only business is selling other people's pirated products, including a lot of WSOs from here. Don't even ask about the sites ... it's not worth getting the thread deleted. There's little you can do to stop them. I tried and wasted a bunch of time, even though my own products were not on the site.

Between pirates and plagiarism, and the people like I mentioned in the beginning framing my site and all the backlink spam that you get hit with so others can benefit from your work, it's a job to combat it.

Back to the original problem. After seeing all those weird urls, I found a very simple, quick solution.

Break-Out-Of-Frames WordPress Plugin

Break out of Frames Wordpress Plugin ... did the trick. So if you've got some lazy asshats trying to monetize your site with their adsense, give it a go. It's free.
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    Unfortunately you do get lazy asses out there trying to make a quick buck, but typically it doesn't last long. They aren't serious about making a living online but rather just come up with some extra spending money.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
      I know the site you are talking about.

      It's no doubt in my mind that the guy is making good money by selling our stuff.

      I wish we would be allowed to make some sort of group that continuously reports sites like this to their providers to get them shut down.

      It's a sad world we live in nowadays...
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      • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
        Hi Suzanne,

        Thank you for your efforts in finding and sharing this plugin.

        The 'artful' thieves may cause unpleasant surprise always. They may destroy your business and credibility variously, not to mention your money loss. This plugin seems a good weapon against them.

        Take care,

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      • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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        Originally Posted by Daniel Brock View Post

        I know the site you are talking about.

        It's no doubt in my mind that the guy is making good money by selling our stuff.

        I wish we would be allowed to make some sort of group that continuously reports sites like this to their providers to get them shut down.

        It's a sad world we live in nowadays
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        It's a sad world since the world began.

        Assholes exist in all ages.
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  • Profile picture of the author warfore
    Sorry for the ignorance but technically what did they do? I'm not familiar with frames. Did they set up a site that copied or highlighted yours (or some portion of it) and then added Adsense?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dhira
    Wait... people are iframing your site and that's a problem? Why?
    I mean you still get some of that traffic....
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    • Profile picture of the author theemperor
      They might be creating links like this

      That was created using LinkBucks which is a popular paid linking site.
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      • Profile picture of the author PMinc
        Originally Posted by theemperor View Post

        They might be creating links like this

        That was created using LinkBucks which is a popular paid linking site.
        Ouch! I got a major Malware Detection Warning from that link.

        Honestly, I can't stand parasites who constantly look for the easy way out and to snag a buck from the efforts of others.

        This breed of Cheech & Chong IMers were probably on some kind of subsistence before the internet came about.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          This breed of Cheech & Chong IMers were probably on some kind of subsistence before the internet came about.
          They probably still are:p

          Adsense check won't be in the mail...
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Sheley
    Thanks for the plugin, I've had to deal with people like this before, but I just added a script to the header and had some fun with them..lol

    I agree, (some) people will always try to make money off of someone's hard work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    I think lazy is not the correct word, I would use the word STUPID.
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    Something new soon.

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  • Profile picture of the author Nigel Greaves
    If you have an HTML site, where obviously the WP plug-in won't work, you can just a small piece of code to the <Head> section of your site.

    You can get the details from fellow Warrior, Dennis Gaskill, site:
    HTML Help: Break Frames

    Nigel
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  • Profile picture of the author TJComer02
    The fact is, if you're going to work online, we all need to suck it up and realize that there is a price we have to pay. Yes, the internet does allow people to get away with alot more, but it also allows ppl who wouldn't be successful offline to make millions online! So, instead of complaining about stuff you can't do anything about, why not just look at the bright side.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by TJComer02 View Post

      The fact is, if you're going to work online, we all need to suck it up and realize that there is a price we have to pay. Yes, the internet does allow people to get away with alot more, but it also allows ppl who wouldn't be successful offline to make millions online! So, instead of complaining about stuff you can't do anything about, why not just look at the bright side.
      Thanks for that bright, cheery note. Sounds very Mary Poppins-ish. But the fact is, your attitude would allow thieves to thrive unchecked.

      Fact is ... this particular little thief didn't get away with it. I reported his Adsense code to Google and it has been suspended. Oooops.
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      • Profile picture of the author TJComer02
        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        Thanks for that bright, cheery note. Sounds very Mary Poppins-ish. But the fact is, your attitude would allow thieves to thrive unchecked.

        Fact is ... this particular little thief didn't get away with it. I reported his Adsense code to Google and it has been suspended. Oooops.

        Mary Poppins is my nickname. How did you know?
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        • Profile picture of the author VanessaB
          Thank you Suzanne. I'm not sure I understand what happened or how, but if you say install the plug in, the plug in shall be installed. As soon as I figure out the rest of WP.

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        • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
          Originally Posted by TJComer02 View Post

          Mary Poppins is my nickname. How did you know?
          Took you 7 months to come up with that come back?
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      • Profile picture of the author txconx
        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        Fact is ... this particular little thief didn't get away with it. I reported his Adsense code to Google and it has been suspended. Oooops.
        Oooh - I like that one!
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  • Profile picture of the author KevinTorrence
    Thanks for the frame break plugin link. I didn't know there was anything like that available. I haven't been hit with any stupid iframing stuff like that yet... but I've seen some sites that have. At least we can start to do something about it for ourselves now.
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  • Profile picture of the author kuzmo1
    Hi

    Thanks for the heads up. Just installing that plug in now!
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  • Profile picture of the author Fun to Write
    Hey, I think this is a Yosemite Sam moment.

    Why those lazy, good for nothin, bushwackin, theivin cowards . . . I outta whack them but good!

    I'm glad you went after them and shared your solution with the rest of us.
    Sometimes you gotta fight back, and this was one of those times.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Thanks for sharing this plugin, Suzanne. I guess this should do a decent job of keeping devious people from defacing our sites using iFrames.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Yeah ... I was surprised to see this thread resurrected, since I wrote it in May, but that was a first for me ... to have someone serve their Adsense code on my site through iframes. The plugin worked beautifully.
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