Bloglovin: Bloggers Rights Are Being Violated

Update: I should have titled this post, “Bloglovin, using your hard work to push their ads.” That is what they are doing.

Bloglovin, without owners permission, is mass syndicating posts. Until you embed their code on your site as an ad, you cannot claim ownership of your blog.  This is a rights and security issue which is scaring bloggers. Anyone with basic password hacking skills can claim my blog as their own.

While they are within the law to a certain extent, there are still major intellectual property issues here for us, especially those of us who use our blogs to promote our books. Does anyone have the right to just access our work, simply because RSS feeds exist? Mine has been removed now, which may adversely affect my traffic.

Bloggers, check Bloglovin for your blog, claim it back and raise hell in complaints! This is wrong. They told me they won’t remove blogs, but on pressing them further, they did comply.

“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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