Alternate Site Appears to be Directly Grabbing Front Page Posts

Detective Pikachu on 20/04/2018 - 04:30
Last edited 20/04/2018 - 12:43 by 1 other user

This site appears to be grabbing deals directly from OzBargain word for word. For example, BA's post "$0 [iOS] 7 Learning Apps for Kids- Montessorium: Intro to Words |Color | Math | Letters |Cursive | Geo | US (Was $4.99) @ iTunes"

http://sleekdeals.co.nz/

Interestingly they quote Slickdeals at the bottom of the page (They don't seem to be affiliated though):

Found a Deal?

Slickdeals is able to share the best deals because of the contributions of users like you! If you found a great deal, please share it with others by posting in our forums.

Edit: Looks like it was a thing since 2016

Dear Staff: If this isn't allowed to be discussed/posted, then you are welcome to delete the post.

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  chumlee on 20/04/2018 - 06:00

  +14

  First they take our jobs, then sleep with our sheep & now stealing our bargains.

  We need to take a Trump attitude to our neighbours in NZ

  • 

    xev on 20/04/2018 - 06:01

    +3

    BUILD THE WALL!

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      Scrooge McDuck on 20/04/2018 - 14:26

      Stop the planes!

  • 

    holdenmg on 20/04/2018 - 08:01

    Send Barnaby back.

    No Apple imports (Fire blight)

    Let's play Cricket underarm bowling allowed.

    Dessert: Australian Pavlova.

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  whooah1979 on 20/04/2018 - 06:03

  http://sleekdeals.co.nz/
  Slickdeals

  It looks like they need help with spelling.

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    scotty on 20/04/2018 - 06:57

    It's because the real Slickdeals, i.e. the trademark owner, has the correct domain name.

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      whooah1979 on 20/04/2018 - 09:14

      slickdeals.net

      An uninformed person may conclude that sleekdeals.co.nz is associated with the slickdeals tm. The operators of sleekdeals leaves themselves open to a c&d.
      https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/mobile/view/159…

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  JIMB0 on 20/04/2018 - 06:28

  +3

  Sounds like a job for the bikies.

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  [Deactivated] on 20/04/2018 - 06:37

  Mmmmmm sounds like a bad deal

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  [Deactivated] on 20/04/2018 - 08:01

  Aggragators are nothing new but this samwaldo looks like he is posting them manually. He could be working so much smarter and ripping content from several sites at once automatically with the right code. OzB doesn't own the deals, he is doing nothing wrong.

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  theHMASfriendship on 20/04/2018 - 10:35

  Any sleek deals??

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    scotty on 20/04/2018 - 11:31

    +1

    It is on special at Coles.

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  kbear2002 on 20/04/2018 - 12:16

  They are just backing up OzB just in case !

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  bcarp on 20/04/2018 - 12:36

  I followed your link to see that site and my browser popped this up for me:

  AdGuard has detected an attempt by this website to use your browser as a crypto-currency miner. It can create significant CPU load. Press "Cancel" to prevent it.

  …at which time I just closed the window.

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  spackbace on 20/04/2018 - 12:43

  Edit: Looks like it was a thing since 2016

  Lol I thought this post seemed familiar ;)

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  Clear on 20/04/2018 - 13:02

  +1

  Just people cashing in on other deal websites' success. Often filling them up with their own affiliate links and ads.

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    [Deactivated] on 20/04/2018 - 15:51

    +1

    I know you're reading this nick123.

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      Clear on 20/04/2018 - 15:53

      Love it how someone pointed it out there and he was in denial. Yeah… those OzB exclusive codes were mysteriously emailed to you nick!

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  stealthmatt on 02/05/2018 - 14:58

  This site is infected with a crypto mining virus

  https://i.imgur.com/oaXGf1S.png