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And that in your opinion is a valid enough reason to make the experience of genuine users, worse?

I’m genuinely asking because to me, who cares if someone steals my content. They can steal it anyway, people will scrap your site if they need.

But I want the user experience for the users to be the best possible.

If you're worried about that you aren't blogging for the public www, though, right?

The content stealers will have no problem scraping your HTML if you just provide summaries in your feed.

In fact my feed has full content and based on the differences in HTML in my feed and the direct page it seems like most often they scrape the page anyways.

It's a blog, it's already public, what is there to steal?

>what is there to steal?

Monetizable traffic. People mirror sites wholesale, throw monetization on it and apply blackhat techniques to ensure they outrank origin site.

I doubt anyone will do that on a personal blog.

Oh, they absolutely do. It's all automated bots. What people don't understand however is that you can report it to Google and/or file a DMCA on it yourself. That's all part and parcel to having any kind of public output.

Or you just ignore it because unless you're (probably fruitlessly) trying to monetize it you'll just drive yourself crazy.