If you're going to steal a site, remove Google Analytics

12 points

16 years ago

This happens all the time. And it really annoys me. This time it happened to us. The amusing part of this, is that we found out because the moron left our Google Analytics code in the pages. Meaning we were getting all sorts of bizarre traffic data to pages that don't exist.

The stolen site is http://organic-views.com/ and was stolen from our site http://sowhappy.com.au

The supposed copyright owner is one Jake Thompson http://jake-thompson.co.uk/ or at his twitter address @Jakexf

I'm curious to know what is the best course of action in this case? The site and developer are UK based. We're AU based. The client has been notified, but I do wonder whether they paid this creep to design their site for them, and how many other clients he has done the same thing to.

For a guy who claims to be "A young Entreprenuer", I can't help but feel that he's getting off on the wrong foot.

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