Comments on: Bitacle update (you know, the blog thieves)

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:45:24 +0000

Karin — If you do decide to switch I recommend WordPress.com. It is free, plus the folks in charge are committed to helping their users stay out of places like bitacle. Good Luck!

By: Karin

Karin — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:13:38 +0000

No, us with Blogger are unable to access the .htaccess file. I have yet to find any solutions….I don’t think there are any, and I think I may be needing to host my blog elsewhere.

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:22:46 +0000

Twisted Cinderella — Kind of cracked me up too.

Jeanie — I’m sorry to hear that! My little trick only works if you have access to edit what is called your ‘.htaccess file’ — does anyone out there know if Blogger lets you do that?

By: Jeanie

Jeanie — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:32:24 +0000

OMG! They have pics of my kids. This is freaking me out. I know nothing about this coding stuff. Is anyone willing to walk me through what I need to do to get the coding in my template so that it displays like Plain Jane Mom’s? Thanks.

By: Twisted Cinderella

Twisted Cinderella — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:32:38 +0000

Thanks for helping us out with this. And I like your idea of making the link to the stop Bitacle site. too funny!

By: Hate Bitacle? This is funny :: Plain Jane Mom

Hate Bitacle? This is funny :: Plain Jane Mom — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:39:49 +0000

[...] Tee hee — turns out that bitacle puts your feed image up in their header area. Now you can click directly from my bitacle posts to the Stop Bitacle site — Ha! OK I’m easily amused, but that combined with my tip for redirecting their image requests to show the below really makes me laugh. [...]

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:34:55 +0000

Hi Nancy. Bitacle is a real pain, but unfortunately even if they get stopped someone else will just pop up behind them. Isn’t it fun! Let me know if there’s anything I can help you with. I still have access to an old typepad account so I vaguely remember how it works over there ;)

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:53:14 +0000

It’s great that you’re offering to help people with this. we definitely need to thwart Bitacle!

I haven’t yet set up the .htaccess on my blog — I will definitely do that. for now I’m starting with truncated feeds. Hopefully that will help!

By: Plain Jane Mom

Plain Jane Mom — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:55:17 +0000

Jonathan: I just checked and my .htaccess stuff is still keeping my images off their site, so go ahead and add it to your list if you like. Of course, as soon as they grab another IP or IP range we’ll all have to change our filters. But at least it is something!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:49:44 +0000

There is no doubt that Bitacle has now turned completely to the “dark side” if you will. They are obscuring their Google information, working around blocks, disrespecting robots.txt files and generally ducking responsibility.

I’ve posted some ways to shut them down on my site, but those focus on cutting off their funding and their search engine benefits. I’ll have to add these blocking filters as well if that is alright with you.

Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help!