“If you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn’t yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time,” Simmons warns. “One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.”

Holy shit this guy is amazing.

I get it though. People trying to monetize your work which was purposely hosted for free without ads would drive me mad too.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Since its launch last year, Simmons says he has attracted a “steady group of daily active users” for Sqword, which involves placing letters sequentially in a 5×5 grid to make as many valid words as possible.

As of press time, we found at least a couple of aggregator sites that apparently haven’t noticed their stolen word game has been replaced with one of the rudest images on the Internet.

Many other sites apparently have noticed the change and have simply shifted to embed the (equally stolen) Pokémon-themed Sqwordle on pages that were showing the shock image just days before.

Simmons uses this case as a cautionary tale, not just for game thieves but for any web developer that hosts external content on their site.

“If you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn’t yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time,” Simmons warns.

More than that, though, we think Simmons has opened up a completely new front in the never-ending war against plagiarists that look to profit off of the work of others.

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A+ stock photo and caption from Ars here

I’d love to see the code as implemented for the iframe feature. Sounds like a good way to protect your intellectual property.