Hello, I have an ecommerce shopify store. I created it one year ago. I found my store in another domain. Someone bought a domain last week and 100% cloned my store. He hosted the store in a Virtual private server. He also synced my store with his store. When I add product to my original store then …

Unfortunately, hackers are a perennial problem. It’s hard enough to get rid of them, and everyone who does any kind of activity on the Internet is bound to run into these guys. I’m speaking as someone who has already encountered them sad.

this is a really serious problem. Because if a hacker is cheating, customers may lose confidence in your store

@JustOneGuy Thank you for that. What you’re saying makes sense. I may be misinterpreting the implementation, though, as I tried both options but it still locks up. Would you be able to modify this (same code as above) to what you are suggesting?

@Investor_life Yes, it’s a super unfortunate thing that there are people in the world who thrive off of taking from others, instead of working and building for themselves. I’m sorry you had to go through it too. I wish there was some way to permanently delete these people. But you’re right, they ar…

Hi Everyone, Just an update on what we did to stop these websites. We now have a Cloudflare firewall that will stop any bots or duplicate stores. It does cost money, but it’s much cheaper than DMCA and it actually stops them straight away.

Not an App just through the cloudfare website here: https://www.cloudflare.com/under-attack-hotline/?gclsrc=aw.ds&&_bt=443968333817&_bk=cloudflare&_bm=e&_bn=g&_bg=101912477959&_placement=&_target=&_loc=1007850&_dv=m&awsearchcpc=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA0KmPBhBqEiwAJqKK45Ty8PY3981rLrvTCP01-_6ZwxHU7OpgAidZXqgR…

Thank you! I will look into that asap!

That’s great to know. Looking into it right now. Thank you for sharing.

I used a similar firewall with a CloudFlare competitor and it worked at first but my cloner found a way around it and they’re back to cloning my site in real time again. I’ve had this done to me by 6 different domains in less than 3 months.

How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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DesignerJoe55 January 21, 2022, 5:40pm 32

@Kimberley_Strip That sounds great! How did you get it set up? Is it just an app?

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How can I remove sync from a cloned ecommerce store?

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