tumblr mirrors on ‘photosugar’

thebibliosphere:

xenowlsome:

silveth:

whovianfloozy:

freesia-moonbeam:

mizjoely:

lordhellebore:

So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.

There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).

An eample for a tumblr user, with my name:

https://www.photosugar.com/tu/lordhellebore

Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:

Hello,

it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.

tumblr username is „lordhellebore“

Thank you.

I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.  

I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).

@janiedean, @ladytp, @vaysh11, @lunavagantt, @einemelodieimwind, @robb-greyjoy, @youbuggingme, @ysilme, @rex-luscus, @bai-xue, @viendiletto, @electricalice, @contessa-de-leusse, @memetic-mutism, @bluecichlid, @mrs-storm-andrews, @ladymothwing, @prismatic-bell, @kittykatknits, @tinkili

….basically, whomever I’m trying at random, it seems that you’re on there.

 Please reblog so others can know and ask for removal if they want to.

I checked and can confirm that my tumblr site is mirrored there. I sent an email requesting to be removed as outlined above. I will let you know if they take care of it.

ATTENTION ALL OF MY FOLLOWERS!

Click the link and type your tumblr name. NOW. I found mine and was beyond horrified to see almost all of the things I recently reblogged and posted to show up without its corresponding captions and sources. 

DON’T DISMISS THIS POST. I’M DEADLY SERIOUS. YOUR TUMBLR COULD BE MIRRORED RIGHT NOW AND YOUR PICTURES TAKEN WITHOUT CONSENT. 

@raywritesthings @hey-assbut @basmathgirl @lapidot-positivity @thescienceofsherlolly @olicitylovely and everyone else please PLEASE do this

Thank you for the heads up, OP, my posts were there as well. Check your name everyone! I sent an email requesting removal and not 5 minutes later received this reply:

“You may remove all of your usernames here:  https://www.photosugar.com/remove    Please reply with ‘escalate” if you need further assistance. Have a good day.“   They are gone now!

The hell? Why even would someone set up a site like that? (It’s not like I even have anything original to be worth stealing.)

@thebibliosphere tumblr mom this seems to be important

Oh ick this stuff again. (It seems a large part of my IM traffic atm is people trying to warn me about this too, so thank you fam)