WordPress.com Forums » Topic: "GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images WordPress.com Forums » Topic: "GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:51:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 amightywp on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images/page/2#post-1182800 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:05:06 +0000 amightywp 1182800@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @streamsandforests, you are correct, all of the users which came later are not being redirected to GoPhoto.it. Just whoever has their software installed as a browser extension. Since the software was functioning in such a way, some sources online were calling the extension malware, though I am not qualified to make such a judgement!

To address your other concern, there is little that can ultimately be done to stop photos from being scraped from websites. Image source obfuscators (hiding the source of the image via code) or right click protection (disabling right click on a site so that the image cannot be saved) provides only a false sense of security as automated spiders can pretend to be browsers and download the images just as easily. The best protection is to watermark images so that if they are reposted elsewhere, the origin of the image is still present!

]]> diygeekess on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images/page/2#post-1182216 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:03:53 +0000 diygeekess 1182216@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for clearing that up: it all makes sense now. It was rather concerning to see links coming from my page that I'd never set up.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images/page/2#post-1182169 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:35:13 +0000 streamsandforests 1182169@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you. So, if I'm understanding correctly, a subsequent visitor to my blog clicking on the same image does not get directed to the gophoto site---it is a one-time alteration in the link for the image thing caused by a gophoto user clicking on the image. That is not quite as bad as I thought. However, if it were an image I'd personally created rather a noncopyright one, I'd feel disturbed that it has now been entered into gophoto's library and can be altered by anyone with gophoto's "effects" tool. This seems a little different from a Google image, which simply directs to my site. There's nothing much I can do to stop a Google image user from subsequently editing and reusing an image that legally belongs to me (using a separate photo editing program), but the gophoto process eliminates an intermediate step and makes it a one-step process for anyone to edit one of my personal copyrighted images.

]]> amightywp on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images/page/2#post-1182127 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:49:23 +0000 amightywp 1182127@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi everyone!

I've been digging in to this topic for the last few hours and though I have not been able to find an exact breakdown of how the GoPhoto.it extension works online, it appears to work like this:

* The GoPhoto.it extension is installed on someone's browser.
* That person then browses the Internet, viewing pages and photos.
* When the person finds a photo which they want to see better, they activate the extension and are shown an enlarged copy of the image on a site.
* In the process, a copy of the image is saved to the GoPhoto.it servers and is hotlinked back to the original image, building GoPhoto's image library (of a Yahoo and Google Image variety) and allowing for "add-ons" like effects to be applied to the images which have been captured.

This process would result in hits showing up in your stats and is why the images are appearing hotlinked on their site.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1182042 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:29:49 +0000 streamsandforests 1182042@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm not sure what it means. I wasn't able to understand it from a technical point of view and became frustrated with the topic, so tuned out of the subject. The problem hasn't recurred on my blog, but even seeing it happen once raises questions. "auxclass" above seemed to have a better comprehension of it, and I do wish WP staff would look into it.

]]> diygeekess on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1182023 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:12:59 +0000 diygeekess 1182023@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Rats. The photos are my own, the original links still work, and I don't have any browser extensions. I'm guessing this means someone accessing my site has gophoto installed on their browser?

I just want to make sure there's nothing on my end I can fix. Thanks for replying.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1182009 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:57:22 +0000 streamsandforests 1182009@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, the issue did not get resolved. I think it is a serious problem that needs to be addressed.

]]> diygeekess on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1182002 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:52:22 +0000 diygeekess 1182002@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm having the exact same problem. Did the original poster's issue ever get resolved? Gophoto is being accessed via links on my site, which I certainly didn't add.

]]> auxclass on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155578 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:16:43 +0000 auxclass 1155578@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ yes your original message did help - have a nice week

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155576 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:15:43 +0000 streamsandforests 1155576@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm getting outta here. Hope my original message did some good.

-- A volunteer

]]> auxclass on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155574 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:14:30 +0000 auxclass 1155574@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No Browser add in stuff - and when I click on the links in my own site I go to the picture on my site, not gophoto - I got the gophoto links from my stats page and from Posts that I had not visited in a while

When I first saw the links I did go to my own Post and checked the links and they were still as I put them in a long time ago -

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155569 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:10:40 +0000 timethief 1155569@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The rest of us in this thread are all Volunteers who know each other well. :)

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155566 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:09:34 +0000 streamsandforests 1155566@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I usually ignore trolls, timethief. Why did you send the message to me in particular?

]]> raincoaster on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155563 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:08:45 +0000 raincoaster 1155563@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The post about the link to add them to the browser is the key, I think. It could well be that you see this in your clicks because someone looking at your blog clicked on a link placed by their browser. Have either of you installed any browser add-ons recently?

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155556 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:02:05 +0000 timethief 1155556@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @streamsandforests
Ignore the spammer. It and all low life bottom crawling scum like it have been reported to ToS Staff.

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155544 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:50:16 +0000 timethief 1155544@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As I said above this matter will receive Staff attention as soon as they get to it. They deal with threads with the earliest dates first and then move forward. There are many thread that were tagged for Staff attention prior to this one being tagged.

]]> auxclass on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155543 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:49:25 +0000 auxclass 1155543@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Looking at the gophoto site - there is a link to add their junk to your browser - there is a "Open Original" - and looking at the image properties shows that they are hot-linking to my WordPress.COM site-

http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fexercise-2-chartlet-th1.png

Not good at all - and how is the click showing up in my stats? Smells like a security issue also to me

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155540 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:47:19 +0000 streamsandforests 1155540@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am a volunteer for Project Gutenberg myself, and I truly understand the effort involve in making a gigantic effort like this work. Thank you for your work. I appreciate your response. The important thing is to get GoPhoto or any other corporate website de-linked from WordPress.

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155534 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:38:11 +0000 timethief 1155534@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No one here has in any way disrespected you. We are Volunteers. This thread is tagged for Staff intervention. Most support Staff are at a meetup, and it's not likely that there will be a Staff response to this thread until next week.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155532 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:34:22 +0000 streamsandforests 1155532@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yeah, so please stop disrespecting me for my nontechnical communications and please help solve this problem.

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155527 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:30:30 +0000 timethief 1155527@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @auxclass
Fascinating information and I don't mean that in a positive way at all.

]]> auxclass on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155521 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:26:10 +0000 auxclass 1155521@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had the same thing happen on Feb 7, 2013 also - gophoto.it is showing as linking out of my Posts below - again - my images - no hot-linking etc

My Post: http://captnmike.com/2010/03/01/navigation-exercise-1/

My image:
http://captnmike.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/18441-exercise-1-th1.png

"Magic" gophoto.it link in my stats Clicks section:<br /> http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F18441-exercise-1-th1.png

http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F18441-exercise-1-th1.png

My Post: http://captnmike.com/2010/05/11/navigation-exercise-2/

My Image Link:
http://captnmike.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/exercise-2-chartlet-th1.png

gophot.it magic link showing up in my Stats / Clicks:<br /> http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fexercise-2-chartlet-th1.png

http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fexercise-2-chartlet-th1.png

OK - any thoughts on what is going on?

Sorry about the double gophoto link posting inside and outside the code tags - not sure about the translation of this editor

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155505 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:04:04 +0000 streamsandforests 1155505@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ raincoaster, what do you mean by "host the images on your own site"? What I have done is to save noncopyrighted images to my own computer, then upload them to the blog. As mentioned, most of these are Wikimedia. "Sons of the South" is not a corporate site like Picapp or Gophoto. As mentioned, I had the image on my blog for the past three years and only now had this corporate intrusion. I honestly believe something new is going on. Please take a serious look at this!!

]]> auxclass on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155500 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 02:01:39 +0000 auxclass 1155500@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is some problem with this - on Feb 10, 2013 and a couple of other days in my Clicks section is shows clicking to GoPhoto.it - sorry folks - my image - here on WordPress.COM - somehow WordPress.COM let them click from inside my site - links posted below

My Posting: http://captnmike.com/2009/10/01/piloting-and-navigators-quick-reference/

The link on MY site to MY photo: http://captnmike.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/navigators-quick-reff-card-page-1-v5.jpg

The link from my Clicks Section:
http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptnmike.files.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fnavigators-quick-reff-card-page-1-v5.jpg

Note to staff: there is another gophoto.it reference just below the above one and some other gophoto.it links a bit earlier in my stats

Why a link that I did not put in??

]]> raincoaster on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155488 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:53:07 +0000 raincoaster 1155488@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ After all, all kinds of noncopyright sites are corporate-owned, or get sold to corporations, or, as with Picapp, work fine for years and then suddenly somebody decides to "monetize" and poof, you have no recourse.

]]> raincoaster on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155487 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:52:05 +0000 raincoaster 1155487@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ But "noncopyright" doesn't mean they won't try to take over your site, as you have seen. If you want to avoid this, you MUST host the images on your own site.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155483 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:47:02 +0000 streamsandforests 1155483@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm just seeing timethief's response. If it is hotlinked, this is not something I did myself. This is something GoPhoto figured out how to do. Please do what you can to stop it.

]]> streamsandforests on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155479 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:45:29 +0000 streamsandforests 1155479@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No , I didn't hotlink from the GoPhoto site. I have no use for those people and would never originate an image from their site. I first posted this image about three years ago. It was never linked to a corporate site until just now. Most of the photos on my site are from my own camera {which get stolen all the time, but that's another story), and the others come either from Wikimedia or from other noncopyright sites. I am scrupulous about that. I do not link from corporate websites. I am very concerned that something new is going on, some new way that companies are piggypacking on blogger's photos. Please stop it from happening!

]]> timethief on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155470 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:40:34 +0000 timethief 1155470@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster
You nailed it. It's hotlinked! Thanks for the assist. Removing tagging.

]]> raincoaster on ""GoPhoto" is trying to take over my images" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gophoto-is-trying-to-take-over-my-images#post-1155465 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:37:34 +0000 raincoaster 1155465@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Did you hotlink the photo from the GoPhoto site? If so, don't hotlink at all. Simply download it to your computer, then upload it to WordPress.com. If it came from Harper's, link it to Harper's. Hotlinking and embed codes from other sites will always expose you to vulnerabilities like that, something I learned the hard way via PicApp.

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