AntiLeech Plugin To Stop Splogs - Does It Work?
Ajay wrote yesterday in his weblog tools column about the AntiLeech plugin that stops splogger bots from:
accessing your site. It does this by producing a fake set of content that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them.
Does anyone have any experience of using this plugin that they can share? Splogs drive me mad and I hate them using my posts, so if the AntiLeech plugin works I’ll install it straight away.




Comment by Thilak on 25 April 2007:
It works for some spam blogs, for others it won’t. It think, this plugin fails to work if you use Feedburner.
This leaves me wondering if Feedburner can do something about spamblogs. What do you say?
Comment by bill on 25 April 2007:
I’ve read about setting up your feed to do exactly what AntiLeech promises - the problem is that it doesn’t work if you’re serving your feed through Feedburner. The issue is (and I think that it is probably true for AntiLeech as well) that your server is doing all the work when it comes to identifying a “leech.”
When you serve your feed through Feedburner your server only sees Feedburner while Feedburner’s servers are what deal with the content thieves.
As Thilak points out, the best solution would be on Feedburner’s end. I’d love to see Feedburner add some type of system for identifying splogs and blocking them.
Comment by Everton on 25 April 2007:
I’ve fired a question over to FB - it’ll be interesting to see what they say on the subject
Comment by Thilak on 25 April 2007:
Everton: Thanks a lot. Hopefully, they’ll take your advice and add a new feature which will help us all.
Comment by Everton on 27 April 2007:
Here’s the reply from FB:
Comment by Everton on 28 April 2007:
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