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Author here. I commented down below, but it's probably more relevant in this thread.

For a bit of clarity around IP addresses hashes. The only use they have in this context is preventing duplicate hits in a day (making each page view unique by default). At the end of each day there is a worker job that scrubs the ip hash which is now irrelevant.



Have you considered serving actual small transparent image with caching headers set to expire at midnight?




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