Beware of Bloglovin: Forcing Ads and Possible Content Theft

No! >> Follow my blog with Bloglovin << This post is necessary as bloglovin, without my permission, is syndicating my posts and until I place this code in, anyone with basic password hacking skills can claim my blog as their own.

That is not the issue, the issue is the forced advertising to get my blog back and the audacity of that service to take my content in the first place. This isn’t promotional help (not with 3 followers), it is a violation of my rights as a blog owner.

And I thought it was just Klout who had that kind of insidious nerve.

Bloggers, check Bloglovin for your blog, claim it back and raise hell in complaints! This is wrong. They have just told me they won’t remove blogs.

“Hi,…
Bloglovin is meant to be a service where you can follow any blog with a public RSS-feed, so we don’t remove blogs.  However, if you want we can hide your blog from our leaderboard, but people will still be able to follow the blog on Bloglovin if it has a public RSS. You can make your RSS private or turn it off. For further instructions on how to do this please contact whoever is responsible for the technical issues of your blog for further assistance.


I am sorry you have such negative feelings about our service. I want to make it clear that we have the claiming procedure to prevent any false claims. Neither are you forced to claim the blog if you do not want to. You do not have to use Bloglovin at all if you do not wish to do so.

We do not claim any of the content as our own and we guarantee you get the correct data traffic.

Best regards,
Linda Kristoffersson, Bloglovin’ ”     support@bloglovin.com

My counter argument to them: “Thank you for your reply. You may wish to consider intellectual property and the legal ramifications of your stance. You may see RSS feeds as being public property, but many of us don’t.  I object to your practices and there is NO reason why you cannot remove or ban a feed. If it was child pornography, you could be forced to do that by law. The explanation given here holds no credibility.”

The internal link to support: http://help.bloglovin.com/knowledgebase/articles/214416-i-m-unable-to-claim-my-blog

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