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Those links aren't working for me, so I'm not sure what you're talking about
but most major feed providers are WIDE open to referer spoofing and they
know it. For those who weren't clear on just how easy it was to use their
feeds for free a demonstrated a bit of script that I put on my page to let
me link to their feeds for free. It's kind of the dirty little secret of that
business. It's not a big problem for their webmaster clients of course unless
they charge you based on how many surfers you send, in which case
you're paying for plenty of visitors that didn't really come from your site,
they just spoofed the referer header. Most, if not all, of the feed providers
also know that the solution to the problem is to just install Strongbox but
for whatever reason few of them do so. I can't imagine that it's just to avoid
shelling out the $100, so I'm not sure why Strongbox isn't used by all of the
feed providers.
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