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eurasiantiger on Nov 30, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using a date-modified header to detect unique visi...

Chances are they aren’t the first to come up with something like this. How can we detect this kind of metadata abuse?

fanso99 on Nov 30, 2022 [–]

perhaps randomize minutes/seconds of the "last-modified" header.

notpushkin on Nov 30, 2022 | [–]

Or perhaps just drop minutes/seconds. And maybe don't store the date altogether for files that are small enough?

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