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Sites that look very similar to Stack Overflow, attempt to imitate the site, or use Stack Overflow data without attribution to trick users. Please read the full tag wiki before making a question about these sites.

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Today, I asked this question on Stack Overflow. Later, while continuing to research possible solutions, I came across a suspiciously similar question on "solutionfall.com" (Wayback Machine). ...
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The following site is doing far more than just copying user content. It's copying the entire content of Stack Overflow's pages, including non-user content. In other words, it's copying substantial ...
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I sent a report about a site where Stack Overflow content appears to be reproduced in violation of the license (as suggested in earlier versions of this FAQ; I was not aware that it had changed) and ...
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I reported a website that scrapes content off of the Stack Exchange network using the /contact page with the following input: Date: 11/28/2021 12:00:00 AM Link to scraper: [redacted] Link to our ...
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Is there any restriction or policy which guides about copying content from Stack Exchange? I found a site which copied a question asked by me with all of the answers as it is with no reference to ...
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(I have read the tag wiki for copycat-sites. However, this site does include attribution, but does so in a misleading way that is faking direct affiliation with myself.) A website masquerading as a &...
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I have seen numerous examples, but below is one example I have just seen today, I am sure there are many more. Git: fatal: fsync error on 'sha1 file': Bad file descriptor https://www.xszz.org/...
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There's a very sketchy site at stackkoverflow <dot> com (two Ks) which seems to have highly variant behavior based on each visit. I had cleared my browser history and went to type in ...
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As stated in the title, while googling I stumbled upon resolved-error.com (link syntax not working for some reason) - the title bar says forbidden - stack exchange with an SO icon, it says something ...
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https://exceptionshub.com/clang-format-line-breaks.html is an exact duplicate of Clang-format line breaks when it comes to the content.
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I entered my credentials at http://stack-overflow.ga/ by accident. Is this site related to the Stack Exchange Network?
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I came across a clone of stackoverflow.com today coming through Bing searches. Not just content scraping, but a full-on proxy server clone. All the latest content appears on this duplicate site ...
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I was searching for some problems with Google, when I found this website among the results: http://stackoverflow.com.mevn.net Basically, all this (supposedly Vietnamese) website does is displaying ...
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If you navigate to the following link, you will see that a question I originally posted to SO has been copied to CodeExample.com. https://codexample.org/questions/385320/why-doesn-t-microsoft-...
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So I was browsing on Google for some query regarding X-Unit test cases, where I bumped into stack overflow site as shown in Screenshot. When the page opened I was logged out!? Contrarily I was logged ...
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