Aaron Parecki

Join me in never using grubhub ever again:

https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousands-shadow-sites/

Basic gist: they set up competing websites sites for small restaurants without telling them. Any calls/orders routed through those sites meant a larger percentage commission for Grubhub.

Then when caught they immediately jump to "we're totally not cybersquatting".

Small businesses do not have the resources or time to compete with a full VC-backed marketing staff of SEO gurus.

I had a great time at the IndieWeb Summit in Portland this weekend. Thanks to Aaron, Tantek, and Tiara for organizing a fantastic conference. For the Sunday “hack day”, I (1) enriched this site with microformats and (2) added support for both inbound and outbound webmentions. I came very close to adding full micropub support via the IndieKit OSS project but, alas, I discovered a couple blocking bugs along the way. Perhaps I’ll have a chance to issue a pull request soon…