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Re:Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views by mettamage on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:34PM (#21678565)
You can go around that as a web developer by redirecting traffic through a server and kicking that header off.
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Re:Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views by askmike on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:36PM (#21678573)
After which the original source can ban your server's IP.

Let the whack-a-mole games begin.

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Re:Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views by winrid on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:43PM (#21678613)
Proxy the script and alter it... Whack. :P
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Re:Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views by Hedja on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:20PM (#21679372)
That's pretty much the case for any remote content. Proxy and rewrite the response. But that added step is usually enough, especially for something as complicated as a Browser MMO.

Also, web servers should have rate limits set which would make proxying less viable, even for IP ranges.

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