This year many Bloggers have been subjected to a sustained campaign of spamming by one website ...
.... this spamming comes in the the form of comments with the copy "Wow! this is Amazing! Do you know your hidden name meaning ? Scratch here to find your hidden name meaning".
A simple search has shown that this spamming is widespread.
Using the text of the comments, I instantly found many blogger sites where this text has apparently been entered in the comments section.
and sure enough, the posts are all being hit by the spammer.
Now, it has to be said that you can report comments as 'spam' to Google, but that doesn't seem to result in this particular spammer site being stopped for too long.
They simply wait for a day or so, then open another Blogger account and resume the comments again with a different text. This cycle has been going on for much of the year (certainly until July 2020 when this post was written and scheduled).
But given that its not hard to track down the website running this campaign, and also given that Google is amongst the biggest and richest companies on the planet, with lawyers commensurate with that status, we are forced to ask the question as to why this spamming company hasn't been closed down?
Clicking a comment takes a user to the offending website ..... app slel dot com (for obvious reasons I don't intend to give them a link, or a bot searchable name, but you can work it out) .... so if I can find them, so can the Google lawyers. So why are they still being allowed to plague the blogger world?
This pandemic subsided briefly, only to be replaced by adverts for a porn sex site .... I have confirmed that its also the same company pushing the porn adverts, and its new campaign has been going on for over a few weeks so far, so Google must be well aware of its fresh activities by now.
Google once was a company with a face and a heart, remember "Don't do Evil," but now it seems the mighty pay per click dollar drives many of its actions. Google seem to have forgotten their roots .... the 4th of September, 1998 is surely not that long ago?
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| I Have Had To Introduce Comment Moderation To Intercept Most Of This Spam ..... |
.... this spamming comes in the the form of comments with the copy "Wow! this is Amazing! Do you know your hidden name meaning ? Scratch here to find your hidden name meaning".
A simple search has shown that this spamming is widespread.
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| Spam Search Uncovered Evidence Of The Widespread Spam Campaign .... |
Using the text of the comments, I instantly found many blogger sites where this text has apparently been entered in the comments section.
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| Bloggers Hit Far And Wide ........ |
and sure enough, the posts are all being hit by the spammer.
Now, it has to be said that you can report comments as 'spam' to Google, but that doesn't seem to result in this particular spammer site being stopped for too long.
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| The Spammers Just Change Names And Try Again ..... |
They simply wait for a day or so, then open another Blogger account and resume the comments again with a different text. This cycle has been going on for much of the year (certainly until July 2020 when this post was written and scheduled).
But given that its not hard to track down the website running this campaign, and also given that Google is amongst the biggest and richest companies on the planet, with lawyers commensurate with that status, we are forced to ask the question as to why this spamming company hasn't been closed down?
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| The Offending Site Has An Image To Match .... The Guy Fawkes Mask |
Clicking a comment takes a user to the offending website ..... app slel dot com (for obvious reasons I don't intend to give them a link, or a bot searchable name, but you can work it out) .... so if I can find them, so can the Google lawyers. So why are they still being allowed to plague the blogger world?
This pandemic subsided briefly, only to be replaced by adverts for a porn sex site .... I have confirmed that its also the same company pushing the porn adverts, and its new campaign has been going on for over a few weeks so far, so Google must be well aware of its fresh activities by now.
Google once was a company with a face and a heart, remember "Don't do Evil," but now it seems the mighty pay per click dollar drives many of its actions. Google seem to have forgotten their roots .... the 4th of September, 1998 is surely not that long ago?
Just for fairness I should report that a few weeks after this post, the spam campaign from this company stopped. However I have now retained comment preview to not have to go through it again,
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