Anti-Scraping Software Installed

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22 April 2015, 3:58 pm
MichaelCorfman

Anti-Scraping Software Installed

We have recently installed anti-scraping software on the GPWA website. We do not believe this new software should introduce any problems for our regular forum users, but if you do encounter any new issues using the forum, please let us know so we can investigate.

We installed this new software because GPWA member Muppet reported our site was being scraped in the following forum post: A site is live scraping the entire gpwa site (Thank you Muppet).

In response we have installed a product called ZB Block, which is able to thwart certain site scrapers from continuing to steal site content.

Michael
22 April 2015, 4:03 pm
Syndicate

Excellent - Thanks for taking security issues seriously.
22 April 2015, 6:30 pm
Renee

Hey Michael
Just a heads up that this thread title forced your newsletter to be quarantined within our company email.
Hopefully we are the only ones.
23 April 2015, 7:11 am
Redbush54

The issue I'm having now is it will not keep me logged in. I'm having to constantly log in just about everytime I go to a new page. Not that big of a deal to have to do that.
23 April 2015, 8:06 am
-Shay-

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redbush54

The issue I'm having now is it will not keep me logged in. I'm having to constantly log in just about everytime I go to a new page. Not that big of a deal to have to do that.

I've had this problem since the forum had that virus. Anytime I log in, I have to log in a second time. Rick made a few suggestions (tried them), but the problem is not on my end.
23 April 2015, 11:43 am
Redbush54

I would have to agree with Shay....had the problem before but not as bad as now.
24 April 2015, 4:00 am
dfiocch

Mmmm... looks like my home network (Italy) is considered as scraper :D
I'm under a proxy right now. Hey, I'm not the scraper! :D
24 April 2015, 12:42 pm
vd752

my gigabit network is banned as well, can view forum from mobile only ;)
Any help?
27 April 2015, 9:06 am
citytech

Hi vd752,

Can you please provide the public IP address of the computer that's blocked? You can get your public IP address by visiting http://whatsmyip.org.

Thanks
27 April 2015, 9:14 am
citytech

Hi dfiocch,

Can you please provide the public IP address of the computer that's blocked? You can get your public IP address by visiting http://whatsmyip.org.

Thanks
2 May 2015, 8:10 am
FictionNet

My UK proxy is blocked too.