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Dev sets up “goatse” trap for sites that steal his free web game
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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Use the Referer header to check what domain the browser is loading from. You can also check the connection origin IP to see if it’s a site you know to be scraping you (i.e. not hotlinking but caching). Could possibly also check the User-Agent header to detect scrapers, depending on if they bother to forge it or not.
Yup, it's pretty easy to detect a cross origin request and serve something different based on that.