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Kaz Wolfe
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Let's take a look!

According to the official guidelines for scrapers, all scrapers must have the following things:

  • Visually indicate that the content is from StackExhange in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine. [Okay, it does this]

So, right out of the box it already has a violation.

However, let's dig a bit deeper!

Again in the official guidelines:

By “directly”, I mean each hyperlink must point directly to our domain in standard HTML visible even with JavaScript disabled, and not use a TinyURL URL or any other form of obfuscation or redirection. Furthermore, the links must not be nofollowed.

If we break out our web inspection tool, we notice something interesting:

So it does use a nofollow.

And, it might be worth to mention that the social links at the bottom redirect back to UbuntuSolved. Not good.


TL;DR: It would be proper to report this page as they're not following attribution guidelines by not including usernames and by including rel=nofollow.

Kaz Wolfe
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