This is sadly true of pretty much anything you publish anywhere online. Someone sets up a scraper bot in order to copy a lot of random junk to their website. This gets them a non-zero amount of SEO which can be monetized (ads, selling backlinks)
Cost: $0 and maybe an hour of time
Reward: More than $0
Solution: None really besides playing whack-a-mole with host/registrar abuse contacts.
Of note: These scrapers often copy the HTML wholesale (to avoid breaking rich content) which means they XSS themselves 🙈
This is sadly true of pretty much anything you publish anywhere online. Someone sets up a scraper bot in order to copy a lot of random junk to their website. This gets them a non-zero amount of SEO which can be monetized (ads, selling backlinks)
Cost: $0 and maybe an hour of time
Reward: More than $0
Solution: None really besides playing whack-a-mole with host/registrar abuse contacts.
Of note: These scrapers often copy the HTML wholesale (to avoid breaking rich content) which means they XSS themselves 🙈
Regarding XSS it could possibly be used to punish them.