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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Craigslist tightens grip, demanding exclusive ownership of ads. Thread starter JournalBot Start date Aug 1, Jump to latest Follow Reply. Status Not open for further replies. But expert says Craigslist "doesn't have that much going for them.
Sort by date Sort by votes. Sounds like crags list needs to expand it's services. Don't like pad mapper using your stuff? Do what pad mapper does, but better and on your site, and I bet pad mapper isn't going to be a problem anymore. Make your site easier for users to navigate, and more difficult for data mining. Start posting ads as images. Either way, this is not the best way to stay relevent much less compete. More options. Mgamerz Ars Praetorian. The best browser for viewing Craiglist is Internet Explorer 3.
James Plotkin Seniorius Lurkius. The exclusive license is just ridiculous in this context. Let's say that I put an ad on Craigslist to sell my guitar. I want to maximize my chances of selling it. I would copy paste the ad onto other classified sites say kijiji for instance. If I'm granting CL an exclusive license, then this behavior is copyright infringement. I'm infringing copyright because I want to maximize the exposure of my ad.
This leads to an absurd conclusion that just can't e supported. Click to expand If I wanted my ad up somewhere else, I'd put it up in that other place. As a poster, I made a conscious decision to put it on CL as opposed to other sites. If CL is so awful, why is it so popular? But I posted to CL knowing that there was no product like that, and still made the call. If I wanted that mappy interface, I could have just as easily posted the ad to Trulia.
