@Ikai +1 "I'm glad this process is in place, but I'd rather let 10 abuse apps sit around longer than they should than avoid shutting down a legitimate user."
Nick Milon On May 24, 4:54 am, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > Ben, > > I understand your frustrations, but do realize that shutting a user down is > not as simple as waving a banhammer. We try to give users the benefit of the > doubt, and we verify with our legal team whether it is within our right to > shut a user down. I'm glad this process is in place, but I'd rather let 10 > abuse apps sit around longer than they should than avoid shutting down a > legitimate user. > > I agree that our abuse handling can be improved - this was definitely > something that was considered as part of our plan to take App Engine out of > preview. People on the internet are scammy, and it costs a non-trivial > amount of money to fight bad people. Who knew? > > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Ben <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for finally taking care of it. > > > If you're taking suggestions: > > > 1) it's very hard to find out where to contact GAE to report abuse - > > the link Barry mentioned does not even exist on most pages, the only > > page I can even see it on is itself down the bottom. > > > 2) It would be awesome if anyone ever replied, I filled out the > > complaint form shortly after Barry revealed the URL and never heard > > anything until the separate, earlier complaint was rejected for > > hilariously bad reasoning. I really don't see what's complicated > > about a generic internet spammer scraping content (or technically > > proxying, though whether he saves the content or not hardly seems > > relevant), it happens anywhere scammers and spammers can make a dime > > dishonestly, it should be a lot easier and a lot faster to report. > > > Ben > > > PS. Not sure how you missed the porn ads but you can still see them in > > Google's cache: > > >http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PY0Fc1PmAJIJ:fsd... > > > <!--JuicyAds v2.0--> > > <iframe hspace=0 vspace=0 border=0 frameborder=0 marginheight=0 > > marginwidth=0 width=632 height=142 scrolling=no allowtransparency=true > > src=http://adserver.juicyads.com/adshow.php?adzone=48052></iframe> > > <!--JuicyAds END--> > > > On May 23, 5:45 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > > > Turns out there were a bunch more terms of service violations being > > > committed by the developer of this application. I couldn't get the porn > > ads > > > to load (that could also have been a violation). > > > > Anyway, the app and other apps by this developer have been disabled. > > > > Ikai Lan > > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > > > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > > > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ben <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Pretty sure it's technically a phishing site now since all links get > > > > rewritten to reside inside the scraper's website including > > > > registration & login: > > > > >http://fsd4353.appspot.com/dHA6L3cub2dlY21hY3V0L2V2Y0xnbnNyaWVhJmFzdj. > > .. > > > > > That should get them shut down fast enough. > > > > > On May 23, 3:09 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <drak...@digerat.com> wrote: > > > > > That's no fun, you should send the APP Engine requests something more > > > > fun... > > > > > Like bit torrents of barnyard animals mating. Or if you want to get > > the > > > > > site taken down quickly forward the traffic to Sony licensed music. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > > > > > [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben > > > > > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:03 PM > > > > > To: Google App Engine > > > > > Subject: [google-appengine] Re: How to get an app banned? > > > > > > Google's DMCA team got back to me today finally, I lodged a complaint > > > > there > > > > > before I started looking for how to contact the App Engine team about > > it. > > > > > They were kindly informed me since it's just a proxy they are going > > to > > > > > continue hosting my stolen content complete with pornographic ads. > > > > > > Between that and the lack of action on this end I decided to take > > myself > > > > out > > > > > of the equation - I'm now redirecting any requests from the > > application > > > > to > > > > > the Google App Engine website. You probably won't have the problem > > of > > > > them > > > > > ranking high enough to lure visitors from search engines at least as > > > > > happened to me, but at least you get the pretty porn ads. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Ben > > > > > > On May 22, 10:51 am, Ben <nospam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks everyone. I reported it through that contact link, not sure > > > > > > how I missed that when I was looking for a way to report the guy. > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > On May 18, 5:50 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks for reporting it Ben. Please use that link above. We'll > > scope > > > > > > > it out, contact the developer and take it down if need be. > > > > > > > > Ikai Lan > > > > > > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > > > > > > > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > > > > > > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > > > > > > > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jay Young < > > jayyoung9...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Correct. > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:32:54 PM UTC-4, Chris Farmiloe > > wrote: > > > > > > > > >> I believe it is in the User-Agent. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > Google > > > > > > > > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > > > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > > > groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com > > . > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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