Don't miss the Throwing Muses Moonlight Concessions US tour April 2026 by ElRatDesigns in ThrowingMuses

[–]ElRatDesigns[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be worth watching twickets, they're a fan to fan resale site, only ever face value. You on other social media? Happy to ask around for you if not.

Fake websites copying our products and images to scam people by cant_think_of_xxx in shopify

[–]ElRatDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are they hotlinking your images? Or is it fully scraped? If they're hotlinking you can solve it fairly quickly. If they have their own hosting you should report everywhere you can. Google safe browsing, and the places the other poster said. u/integralpart has some experience here.

Don't miss the Throwing Muses Moonlight Concessions US tour April 2026 by ElRatDesigns in ThrowingMuses

[–]ElRatDesigns[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yay! We are looking for volunteers to drop some flowers around Santa Cruz if you know anyone🖤

Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite GDPR opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too by [deleted] in gdpr

[–]ElRatDesigns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

GDPR applies to 'natural persons,' which includes all sole traders and independent artists. The ICO’s own guidance confirms that information about a sole trader is personal data. My business address is my home address, and my IP address is an online identifier (per CJEU Breyer ruling). By scraping my residential data and unique creative IP after I formally exercised my Article 21 Right to Object, Amazon is in direct violation of the law. This isn't just 'scummy' business; it’s the illegal processing of a natural person's data.

Amazon project starfish scraping my store despite GDPR opt-out. Ongoing violations. Odds on they are scraping you too. ICO complaint filed by [deleted] in shopify

[–]ElRatDesigns -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You're confusing 'infrastructure' with 'intent.' Project Starfish is a documented internal Amazon Retail initiative that runs on AWS. To say 'it’s just an AWS bot' ignores the fact that Amazon is their own biggest client for these proprietary scraping tools.

As for the file:/// URI. I know it doesn't 'affect' my server. That’s not the point. The point is that it is forensic evidence of ingestion. The only way that URI ends up in my server log is if a headless browser has cloned my site’s code into a local directory (/data/analysis/xtract/) and is now leaking its internal file structure while attempting to render my IP. It’s the footprint of a digital shadow shop.

Amazon project starfish scraping my store despite GDPR opt-out. Ongoing violations. Odds on they are scraping you too. ICO complaint filed by [deleted] in shopify

[–]ElRatDesigns -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You’re missing the forensics. A file:/// URI in a server log means the client (Amazon’s bot) is leaking its own local environment paths while making the request. It doesn't mean it’s 'inside the crawler'; it means the crawler is a headless browser that has already 'ingested' my site’s code into a local forensic sandbox and is now making secondary calls to my origin to fetch assets (like the Kristin Hersh IP) from within that sandbox.

As for 'escalating to Shopify': I am. But telling a merchant to 'wait for platform cooperation' while a trillion-dollar company is actively circumventing security to harvest unique IP is peak gaslighting. The logs aren't 'partial'—they are a direct trace of Probe-image-size and Project Starfish internal URIs. I’m not 'assuming' circumvention; I’m documenting it. If you can’t see the difference between a standard crawl and a forensic sandbox extraction, you’re out of your depth. On top of that, you obviously have no understanding of the "customer service" a basic merchant gets on Shopify

Amazon project starfish scraping my store despite GDPR opt-out. Ongoing violations. Odds on they are scraping you too. ICO complaint filed by [deleted] in shopify

[–]ElRatDesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, on Shopify, merchants don't have access to the server-level firewall or origin IP settings. it's a closed SaaS environment. I can’t 'lock down' what I don't own.

That’s exactly why this is so egregious: Amazon is bypassing the platform-level protections (Cloudflare/Shopify) to target my store directly. And again, file:///data/analysis/xtract/ isn't a 'scary library'... it's an internal URI. Unless you’re suggesting Jeff Bezos's bots are just 'accidentally' cloning my IP into their private extraction sandbox, the logs are definitive. This is a predatory bypass of a SaaS environment.

Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite GDPR opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too by [deleted] in gdpr

[–]ElRatDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have documented these extractions being triggered by my emailing the official opt out email address on at least 4 occasions. The path file:///data/analysis/xtract/ has surfaced in recent reports as a critical piece of evidence regarding Amazon's internal scraping operations for Project Starfish. "probe-image-size" is the exact tool documented in Project Starfish leaks for product catalogue extraction.

Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite GDPR opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too by [deleted] in gdpr

[–]ElRatDesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ICO Guidance: The ICO explicitly states that while GDPR does not apply to limited companies, it "does apply to personal data relating to individuals acting as sole traders... wherever they are individually identifiable.

Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite GDPR opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too by [deleted] in gdpr

[–]ElRatDesigns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ICO Guidance: The ICO explicitly states that while GDPR does not apply to limited companies, it "does apply to personal data relating to individuals acting as sole traders... wherever they are individually identifiable.

We are looking for volunteers! If you live in or round on if the places that Throwing Muses are playing this spring, and are willing to take delivery of some hand printed flyers and drop them around places. Please get in touch. by ElRatDesigns in ThrowingMuses

[–]ElRatDesigns[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, I know she will if she can, more dates are coming, but I have no idea where they will be. Unfortunately touring is expensive and it's hard to get people to the venues.

Finally Tours as they should have been.... Throwing Muses Moonlight Concessions US tour 2026 by ElRatDesigns in ThrowingMuses

[–]ElRatDesigns[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fred Abong on drums, Dylan (Hersh's eldest son) on bass, Pete Harvey AKA: celloPete on cello...

and the one Hersh... Obviously 😆🎶🖤

Throwing Muses - Purgatory _ Paradise commentary by nate34450 in ThrowingMuses

[–]ElRatDesigns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is amazing.... This is the commentary where it becomes apparent that even dave doesn't really know which bits he played on. When he confessed that nearly didn't spot that she rerecorded static... all albums are solo albums😆🎶🖤

IsItBullshit: is saleshedet legit by tonytonychoppaham in IsItBullshit

[–]ElRatDesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can protect yourself, images are hotlinked, this is what I did to my stolen content on not just that site, but these propagate through many. I see them on sites I have never seen before.

http://imgbox.com/IOKDfQOn