[jgrahamc]

I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.

[euroclydon]

Boy-oh-boy I wish Google would lock analytics IDs down to a domain. Somebody in a university in Mexico City copied mine into a project they have in their www directory, and I just had to regex filter it out of GA.

[k__]

seems like the amount of people who do this is rather big. Google probably thinks it's a good way to track users of websites that aren't their customers :D

[Bill_Dimm]

I had a similar experience. When they copied our website they even copied the corporate logo at the bottom of the page, which was linked back to our corporate website. I was looking at the referrer logs for the corporate site and saw click-throughs from some site I had never heard of.

[jevin]

Same experience here. The guy even hotlinked our Javascript files. Little did he know that we could have controlled his website from where we were.

[thejacenxpress]

alert("we steal");

[sneak]

You only trigger the alert on 1% of page loads, otherwise they fix it quickly. ;D

[atacrawl]

At the company I work for now, they found a site for a British company (we are in the US) that didn't steal the look of the site or the copy of the site -- they stole the names, headshots and bios of the executives and used them on their site.

Still speechless about it.

[pyre]

Was it a legitimate company? That could make sense if it was a scam trying to look more legit.

[danielweber]

I worked at a company where the competitor included our typos in their product. Good times, good times.

[spohlenz]

This exact same situation happened to me in the past month. My login page and its assets were copied, right down to the Rails asset digest fingerprints in the filenames as well as the Google Analytics code, which is how I discovered them.

I sent a sternly worded "Notice of Copyright Infringement" email and two weeks later their whole site was completely redesigned.

[dsl]

Do you still work for CloudFlare? (your website seems to hint that you've moved on) They have ripped lots of stuff off.

[jgrahamc]

I do work for CloudFlare. What has been ripped off?