They haven't put a captcha on the Adobe site.  It was getting to be enough of a nuisance that I stopped using the Fotolia version.

Yes, but As doesn't autocomplete my login data saved by my browser (FF) and that is a nuisance too, at least for me.

Below:

By using shutterdowner you are ACCEPTING our Terms & Policies | Credit By Facebook Business
DMCA Protected | Powered By ShutterStock
Coded By MrZaghar

See for yourself. This thief is one step ahead of SS. SS needs to take serious action, their added security measures do not help. It's a cat and mouse game with this hacker, this site needs to be taken down.

I don't see the favicon you mentioned but the rest are all lies and window dressing.
 
1. Terms & Policies is a mandatory page on all sites which refers to the use of cookies, you can see it popping up on every site (in the header or footer).

2. DMCA protected is a free badge that everybody can post on his/her site ( I do it too) but you get no protection unless you pay for it. At the link provided by Artist you can see "not verified" on the shield. When someone pays for this sevise, it changes to "verified". Besides, it seams to be still pending.

3. Powered By ShutterStock - though the link is masked by google URL shortener, I think this is a serious ofence, SS should take some action.

I never thought I would ever say this but I have more dl-s on DP than on SS this week.
I know it is summer but almost no downloads in the middle of the week is very strange.

This is how they replied on Friday:

"Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Our legal team will issue a takedown notice to this site, and others like it that we find.

Our teams are also working to secure our systems to defend against this type of fraud.

Thank you for your commitment to Shutterstock and for your continued contributions."

that Sh*tterDowner site is still up and working, very disappointing.
Not uploading any new images until this will be resolved.

I received the same answer.
SS shut down many of them these past months, unfortunately these thieves always come back under another URL.

Quote from: Dodie on August 15, 2017, 09:50

SS took down many sites reported at this thread in June - July: https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/91181-stealing-ss-images-big-time
Maybe it would be a better place to report this one too at the same thread. I don't think they are reading this forum.

The Shutterstock forum is read only by contributors.
The twitter and the Facebook pages are read by much more people, including customers, shareholders, Shutterstock staff and the CEO himself.

I am sorry that is not true. SS forum if permanently followed by SS moderators and especially the thread I mentioned above. They asked us several time to report any similar case; here is just one: https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/91181-stealing-ss-images-big-time/?do=findComment&comment=1616793

I wouldn't advertise this thing on social media, thieves find their way without invitation but this is just my opinion.

Germans are frequent buyers, but according to my personal data, US buyers buy more than Europe combined (excluding the UK), and the UK is a big buyer too.

There is almost always a holiday somewhere, but I find that the US holidays are what can make sales dry up.

That could be your case but I have at most 10downloads/month from the US and even less from UK.

This is a big holiday for Christianity, not just Roman Catholic but for Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches and all Protestants too. Even so I don't think that I will have less downloads than on my usual 0 Saturdays. This will pass too.

Yes, that is weird that they don't accept PP for everything. You might send an email to Mat Hayward directly, maybe he can help you figure something out, yeah?

Thanks Cathy.
I don't want to burden Mat with this, I could call their office in my country but I searched in the meantime and it seams this is how they work.

Strange is that they shows me the price in � but they don't let me use my master card either, they force me to pay with the Visa card, which is local currency.
Never seen a place where they dictate which card you can use.

Adobe doesn't accept PP payment for other than CC products, at least I couldn't find a way to do so.

Apparently, I have to convert my credits 3 times back and forth at the worse rate to buy something from Adobe, I can't believe this is happening.

Any advice, please?

Quote from: fritz on June 27, 2017, 15:25

You should make 100$ withdraw money and than close account!

Sure, but making $6 at DT make take you a lifetime :-)

That's right.

It's not fair, I agree but as far as I know, no agency will pay you if you leave before you make payout.
I am at $90 and I fear it will take another year for me to make payout.   The closer you are to $100, the less downloads you get. I had 3 dl-s for $1.05 in May and 4 dl-s for $1.40 in June. They are holding and using our money as long as they can.

Thanks for the update. I hope SS take some strict actions against such website.
Though the system is still not entirely clean.

Websites like fiverr are welcoming such illegal doings.
https://www.fiverr.com/raajpoot/do-web-scraping-and-buy-images-from-shutterstock

This guys at fiverr will give you SS images and has his own pricing structure.

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I think he was using one of the many methods mentioned on SS thread. Those are now blocked, well most of them. He could also be a crook that doesn't deliver what he is promising.

Anyway, new methods will be created if SS doesn't secure the collection somehow.

I would say, contributors that don't read the SS forums don't care about their products either.
There is a long thread about this over there and SS says it was taken care of the matter.

What security? Protection?
Thieves are stealing our images for free in countless ways and SS has nothing to say: https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/91181-stealing-ss-images-big-time/?do=findComment&comment=1617789