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Comment by kstenerud | Hacker News Reader

> their article contains links to my actual website, with the exact link text (?!)

I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong here? Unless the link text is very long, why would someone linking to your article use different words for the link text?

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Right, that's quoting and citing a source.

Sometimes links take the form of `.../post/{id}/{extra-text}` where `extra-text` is not used at all to match the post. Amazon links are (used to be?) this way where the product name is added to the end of the link but can be removed or changed and still will route to the product. Maybe the author is surprised the LLM is providing the irrelevant portion of the link verbatim.

I think they probably had the section header link back to their webpage, or something similar to that. This is not a well-written rant.

I think he's saying he uses his website's URL in his tutorial examples, and other tutorials have copied them as-is

Imagine you have two web pages.

One is a recipe for apple fritters, and the other is an informal ranking of apples by flavor.

Let's say your apple fritter recipe links to your apple ranking list.

Later, you discover someone copied your apple fritter recipe without credit, but it still links to your apple ranking list, using the same wording as your recipe. They're getting more Google SERP juice and ad revenue than yours, despite stealing your article.

Do you see the problem?

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