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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by rplnt on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:51PM (#16619964)
For any web/cloud service, I think this might be easily triggered when the service is trying to be helpful. I.e. when fetching previews, displaying in/active links, etc...
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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:53PM (#16620005)
You're right, and this does happen.

If that's a problem for you then you can mitigate it a bit by checking the User-Agent and IP address in the alert email you receive.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by dorgo on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:47AM (#16626884)
lol, just add a captcha to the trap page :D
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