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This is happening to me as well. I have a few moderately popular open source projects and I have found my name attached to new projects that I have nothing to do with or they are derivatives of my projects with redirection to unknown sites.

Legitimate projects:

https://github.com/jimmc414/onefilellm

https://github.com/jimmc414/Kosmos

https://github.com/jimmc414/cctrace

Projects using my name which I have no affiliation with or they are projects I have written that they have injected new URLs into:

https://hub.decision.ai/skills/jimmc414/benchling-integratio...

https://lobehub.com/skills/jimmc414-claude-code-plugin-marke...

https://mcpmarket.com/tools/skills/geniml-genomic-machine-le...

https://mcpmarket.com/tools/skills/biopython-for-molecular-b...

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Idk if this is intentional or just part of an innocent site that’s unwittingly hosting these but I just got a “we’re verifying your browser” page, as if _I’m_ the suspicious one. Nice social engineering.

Happens more and more if you're running uBlock.

Microsoft bought it a while ago. What you're seeing is referred to as "Extinguish".

Microsoft bought Vercel???

> Projects using my name which I have no affiliation with or they are projects I have written that they have injected new URLs into:

How do you find these? I don't want to search for my name on those dodgy sites, as that tells them my projects exist.

For me these appeared to be indexed by Google, so a search with my GitHub username surfaced them.

I understand this sentiment, but rest assured that they will find your projects anyway.