Still waiting for you guys to explain this in terms the average person can understand How in the hell can people complain if they do not understand what is happening?????
That's exactly what they do - they serve your pages under their domain name. Not only they introduced over 300K duplicate pages into Google (it's like you are competing with yourself for the spot in Google), but they may also steal your data if somebody is not careful enough and will enter their data into a mock up page (e.g. enter your bank's URL following .1bu.com). A bit of info I dug out. Google stores about 306K pages with 1bu.com in the URL (inurl:"1bu.com"); Their website seems to be running since 28-Nov-2004; Servers are hosted by China Telecom. I will be surprised if other compnaies won't take some action against these guys in the coming days/weeks. J.D.
Google is becoming known as the next data security risk and a tool for hackers to use, they need to invest in security before they become a joke like Microsoft has become. These companies have the "best so-called technology", but hackers worldwide beat their asses everyday. Computing sucks any more with all these computing risks all of us face daily, if the leaders in the industry contribute to the problems (Microsoft and Google) then we all have some real problems staying in business
I don't see this as I really big issue. I have a question though. Maybe this is helping the chinese connect to the outside world. Also we have a filtered internet at school, we'll see in the ocming days if this is an easy bypass.
I respectfully disagree. I want the world to know I exist, that's the purpose of advertising. I would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. They have provided a quick way to get themselves disconnected from your sites and it works. We shouldn't have to trouble ourselves with this, but is easier that fighting a losing battle with an organization that may be acting legally even if unethically. Also, do you really want to monitor every proxy IP that 1bu might decide to use? To each his own, but sometimes (rarely ) simple solutions work. Good luck to each of you regardless of your tacticts. Roger
When your adsense ads show on a page redirected from them, you see PSA's. They are seriously diluting the adsense campaign and we should all complain from that angle.
Would you come out in the middle of the night on a downtown street and "advertise" that you have money? Well, that's exactly what you are doing by interacting with them. Do you want to go to every site like this and to unregister yourself? It's a rule of spam fighting - never open their emails, never go to their websites and never unregister with them. Just block them. As far as every other proxy goes, I'm fine with people using proxies because proxies are different from these guys. These guys are using a proxy-like engine, but they serve *your* pages under *their* URL, modifying responses on the fly. This has nothing to do with web proxying. J.D.
RTH, if I were you I would listen to what JD is telling you, don't assume that they will help you, you are being fooled, no doubt about it
How is he being fooled? He requested his site not be 'filtered' and they made a change so it wasn't. It's not like he gave them any personal id info, email address or anything like that. This isn't an email "confirm your address and we'll remove you". You're trying to make a comparison that isn't there.
That is like President Bush saying to Osama, please don't attack us again Sir, we don't want you to do it again
Christopher, can you think of any good reason for a company without a mail server, with the DNS server's admin email addresses configured as hostmaster@nameserver to provide this kind of service? I will preempt the proxy answer - it isn't a proxy in the conventional proxy sense. I can't think of any good ones and I can definitely think of a few bad ones. J.D.
1bu for sale Looks like they're selling it. Wonder which unscrupulous hacker will bid the most... Worried yet? I am... Oh look, it's the online bank I use! Ok I'm not worried about MYSELF. As for the millions of undereducated web users out there, poor bastards... "What's the commonwealth bank's website again honey?" "I can't remember dear, it's not their full name, google it" "Ok honey, damn I forgot to pay rent again, better hurry it up... here it is" *tap tap tap* "There we go... transfer money... all done!"
I checked a few URLs like this one yesterday and their current engine isn't modifying secure links. Looks like for now they are doing it just for the links. Most likely they are setting up grounds for future attacks. BTW, you might want to edit your post and remove the url around the URLs you quoted. Makes no sense to give them what they are after. J.D.
No, I can't, and that does concern me. My point is simply that people are saying this site is doing things, like collecting data from forms, that it isn't doing. If you go to the bank site mentioned above, look at the source, you'll find that the html form is unaffected and people signing in will go straight to the real bank site. I don't know what they are doing... but I think we need to be accurate and not just make things up. So far it's been shown that they are redisplaying other people's content, and doing so has affected some people's serps (maybe, since serps are up and down anyway it's hard to say anything for sure), and that affiliate links are messed up (but not stolen) when redisplayed on their system. Are they setting up some future attack? Who knows, but if so, they are showing more patience that most thieves do, that's for sure --edit-- J.D., oh, I see you did look at the source and understand what I mean. I, too, can think of many very, very, bad things they - could - be doing. Just haven't been able to find them doing any of those things, and I don't think people should be saying that they are doing things that they aren't.
Add my site to the list of stolen sites! Although it's using a slightly different url, and this company seems to have targetted websites of similar content as their original url has ringtones in it (which is what my site sells), which suggests it's a bit more sinister than just mirroring services so others can access them: http://www.mob453.com.link.ringtones.ag/ If you do a google search for my site (mob453), it comes up 2nd, beating even this one and meryl.net! The other odd thing is...why have they replaced one of my graphics with a large blinking eye?
They are modifying your HTML on the fly without your concent (e.g. adding "powered by ..." at the end of the page), show the retrieved content under their domain names (which has copyright violation written all over it) and, unlike a real web proxy, they make your browser place future requests directly to them (because non-image links are changed to point to their servers). You can configure your browser not to use a proxy and this configuration will be effective immediately. With them, you have no control over whether you want to use this "service" or not. How can I make it more clear... they have hundreds of thousands of pages collected by the search engines. Their current rewrite engine isn't configured to modify secure links because they are planning on selling this website, not on stealing data. I'm pretty sure that it would take them or whoever buys this site a few minutes to reconfigure the engine and rewrite secure links as well. When this is done, God help those folks who are looking for those little specialty Internet shops on Google. And another thing. Once somebody figures out that they've been scammed like this, guess who they will try to go after. That's right - the store owners. I'm not saying they will win, but the hassle to prove that it was not your fault may still be quite unpleasant. J.D.