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Yeah but you do need to hang the takedown on some technical reason like copyright or scamming. The issue here is there's no obvious victim. Makes a takedown harder.

It's worse than that. There's a SECOND imitator that I actually stumbled on today while looking something up about nanoclaw - nanoclawS [dot] io - and that one's harvesting email addresses.

The obvious risk here is a bait and switch, where one of these sites switches their link to the Github repo to point to a malicious imitator repo instead.

One approach would be to go after the sites themselves, not their Google ranking. See if their hosts are willing to take them down. Is there anything you can assert copyright over to hang a DCMA request on? That's hard for an Open Source project, I guess. And the fake sites aren't (yet) doing any actual scamming.

Good luck, though!

Is this really crypto-jacking? Because it's not clear to me from the article the end user did anything wrong. Maybe it's just "legitimate" cryptomining in an unexpected way.

Yeah, I tend to agree. I guess we'll see which companies can make it work and what happens to the projects if they don't.

> Well, it makes sense, you can outsource bug fixing and reporting for free.

In the long term, maybe. In the short to medium term, most of the development ends up being done by the company who created the project.

I guess for simple stuff like typo bugs, people will submit PRs, and maybe organisations with weird use-cases will merge their integrations etc into the project, though.

> only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp

In many countries, EVERYONE has WhatsApp. In Israel it's how your boss, your work team, your kid's daycare, businesses and government offices communicate with you.

I don't think I've sent an SMS in more than five years. But outside of the US, everyone uses WhatsApp with E2E encryption baked in.

This is mad and I love it.

This seems to be an increasingly popular model: Make an open source project on the one hand and selling a hosted, managed version of the open source product on the other.

Hey that's me!

> Ex: aidoc has an algorithm for brain bleed for case prioritization, not a diagnosis).

Eh... well it's more complicated than that. These systems CAN diagnose, but their regulatory approval is only for use as an aid, not as a diagnosis tool.