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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
You just need to get rid of the referer header then, so just bounce it through a referer stripping site (ie: anonym.to) or an awesome hack like this[1] or set up a web server to act as a reverse proxy that strips the referer header and cache the crap out of it so that you don't hit the xkcd servers every time and get noticed too easily.
1: http://referrer-killer.googlecode.com/git/example.html
It's just too easy to get around.
Comment by SanityInAnarchy at 26/04/2014 at 08:29 UTC
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Sure it is, once you know it's happening. If xkcd.com were to implement this suddenly, well, /r/xkcd isn't using anything like that right now any more than they're rehosting everything to imgur. There are some 41k subscribers to /r/xkcd -- I bet those are fans of XKCD and not /r/xkcd.
So if every link on /r/xkcd suddenly led to a page that says "XKCD does not run /r/xkcd, and the mods there are dicks, you should subscribe to (insert other XKCD subreddit here)," yeah, /r/xkcd could get around that... *eventually.* Hopefully *after* they lose a significant number of subscribers.
And if /r/xkcd standardized on one particular referer-killer, then XKCD could probably block that one by IP. Again, not a permanent solution (so maybe unblock it later), but hopefully enough to bleed another few thousand subscribers.