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Bypassing the Grammarly plagiarism checker by simply replacing characters (hackerone.com)
2 points by evilksandr on Nov 1, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Replacing the characters i, a, e, o, p, c, x in the text with similar ones in the Ukrainian keyboard layout leads to the fact that plagiarism detectors (Grammarly plagiarism checker and others) skip such text, mark it as unique (without any plagiarism) and do not even signal that the characters have been replaced with Cyrillic ones. The text with replaced characters looks natural, has original readability, and after bypassing the plagiarism detection begins to cause harm on the hosted site, both reputational and in terms of SEO (those texts will led to pessimization in google ranking).




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