referrer spam

noun

Definitions

  1. A form of spam in which the spammer visits a site while using a fake referrer URL…

    A form of spam in which the spammer visits a site while using a fake referrer URL containing advertising text, intended to be read by anybody viewing the referrer logs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for referrer spam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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