Someone's Impersonating This Blog

What’s the purpose of cloning a website like this? Is the idea to add links to other sites that get ranked marginally higher if the fake site gets popular? Because even if you cloned 1000 websites, I can’t imagine it making a big difference.

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> It should be obvious this isn't a high-value website.

Ah, but every time I've seen your blog, it was on the front page of Hacker News!

You couldn't make this up.

> It's hosted with Cloudflare, and the abuse reporting form they insist you use straight-up doesn't work. Click "Submit an abuse report" and it'll take you to a completely blank page. Very encouraging.

The page is truly blank = the view source page shows absolutely nothing

So I turned of uBlock origin and tried again

> Sorry, you have been blocked > You are unable to access abuse.cloudflare.com