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We've noticed today that we get about 90M requests per day from various ISPs in India, all with the same characteristics: URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg/1280px-AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg Referer: "-" User-Agent: "-" These are very strange, as they come from wildly different IPs, follow a daily traffic pattern, so we are hypotesizing there is some mobile app predominantly used in india that hotlinks the above image for e.g. a splash screen. We need to investigate this further as this kind of requests consitutes about 20% of all requests we get in EQSIN for media.

(WARNING) **Please avoid adding drive-by comments such as "hello from Hacker News" to this task as they are not helpful. Thank you.** We've noticed today that we get about 90M requests per day from various ISPs in India, all with the same characteristics: URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg/1280px-AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg Referer: "-" User-Agent: "-" These are very strange, as they come from wildly different IPs, follow a daily traffic pattern, so we are hypotesizing there is some mobile app predominantly used in india that hotlinks the above image for e.g. a splash screen. We need to investigate this further as this kind of requests consitutes about 20% of all requests we get in EQSIN for media.

(WARNING) **Please avoid adding drive-by comments such as "hello from Hacker News" to this task as they are not helpful. Thank you.** We've noticed today that we get about 90M requests per day from various ISPs in India, all with the same characteristics: URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg/1280px-AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg Referer: "-" User-Agent: "-" These are very strange, as they come from wildly different IPs, follow a daily traffic pattern, so we are hypotesizing there is some mobile app predominantly used in india that hotlinks the above image for e.g. a splash screen. We need to investigate this further as this kind of requests consitutes about 20% of all requests we get in EQSIN for media.