{"id":1490,"date":"2004-11-05T18:21:47","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2004-11-07T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T01:41:12","slug":"fashions-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"fashions change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you are familiar with referral spam<\/em>. The spammer issues HTTP requests for pages of yours, giving the advertiser’s address as the source of the link; you look at your HTTP log and say to yourself “whoopee, there’s a link to my site from someone I didn’t know about; what do they say about me?”; you look up their site and find that it sells, let’s say, referral-spam services.<\/p>\n

Now I see a change. Previous referral spam has usually been from domains with cryptic names, hitting many different pages; they were easy to spot and ignore. The latest batch has a hundred different domains with clear names like application-card-credit-4u.info<\/i>, each hitting three or fewer of my pages. I have not bothered to see how many different hands are behind these various finger-puppets.<\/p>\n

It’s a much worse nuisance than before; finding seeds among chaff is harder than ignoring chaff among seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you are familiar with referral spam. The spammer issues HTTP requests for pages of yours, giving the advertiser’s address as the source of the link; you look at your HTTP log and say to yourself “whoopee, there’s a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogdom","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}