How to Protect Your Blog Against Stealth?
How to protect your little blog’s content from being stolen?
Do you know how many time someone had borrowed my entire posts and had them displayed on their blogs WITHOUT asking? La e7em wala destoor? Sometimes they would add a small little notice on their post stating the source, 3nd el7safa y3ni, and sometimes they don’t. Its not really fair for start up blogs to leech on other bloggers who spent hours working hard to put together a blog posts and then they just come and take it just like that.
Do you know how many forums have I hunted down and fought with, because they stole my entire posts? Do you know how many users in Instagram have I reported because they stole my pictures and posted them as their own without mention? I don’t mine if its one of my fellow bloggers whom I trust and respect borrow my pictures to reference me in their blog posts, I do mind when its a stranger who will crop out my blogs name and use it for their gain in forums, blogs, instagram, twitter, facebook, or as a whatsapp broadcast.
Before, we used to say la tboog la tkhaf. Now, lel asaf, it seems like people are bitten by the stealth bug and its becoming a frenzy of stolen contents here and there. Bs 3ad, malaina!
How to protect yourself?
1- Watermark every single picture you take and post and reduce their size, don’t use the full resolution wella 3adi tomorrow you see a billboard on the street with your picture on. Watermark is a pain bs b3d shensawi.
2- Install the “WordPress Protection, Security for your wordpress site”. My dear Jacquis just posted about it (post) and 3 minutes later I was on the Plugin page looking for it. Now its installed, look at my protected blog. You cannot copy the text, and if you try to right click on a picture this is the message you will get.
3- If all else fails or it was too late to protect your posts, you can always report the thief. Internet is open and free but there is no such thing as absolute freedom. There are rules! You can always report them and action will be taken immediately, on all social media elements. Check what 7aji Dude’s blog did (post) to another blog who took their posts and various other bloggers posts and used them as if they are their own. 3afiya 3lekom! This is what started this whole thing btw.
This, sadly, will not stop thieves completely. Others can still steal your ideas, those are named copycats, a nicer term for the word thief. Others can still put up entire blogs based on your ideas and then make sure there is no mention of you there, just because they can as a way of getting back at you, and other blogs will be more than happy to clap for them and parade them around.
Yes, you know exactly what I’m talking about. If you went there and saw that injustice and didn’t say anything but instead you were more than happy with it and began advertising for it, then good for you wallah. But I will never forgive you for it. Being a copycat is one thing, being a cheeky vengeful unfair copycat is totally another, and assisting them to deliver his injustice and help him get what they exactly want is making you as bad as they are yourself. E96eflo 3ad.
B3d shino?
That’s about it I guess. If you want my picture or my post and I have no idea who you are, there are certain channels you can go through, include asking me first.
Eshda3wa, you say? Well, if you are team eshda3wa then its obvious you’ve never had anyone steal anything you’ve worked hard for from you before. Wait till someone does and then see the rage that consumes you. Until that happens to you, please spare us your diplomatic thoughts on the matter.
Again, recap, DO NOT TAKE SOMETHING THAT IS NOT YOURS WITHOUT ASKING, ELDENIYA MO FAWTHA, COMPRENDE?
