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Actually hot-linking in that way is often considered bad form because it can incur bandwidth costs, sometimes significant, for the image host.
by bartread 9y ago
Actually hot-linking in that way is often considered bad form because it can incur bandwidth costs, sometimes significant, for the image host.
- egeozcan 9y agoYou can decide to not serve them, looking at the referrer. Wanting your image to show up in image search results but not wanting it to be directly opened is trying to keep the cake and eat it at the same time.
- exodust 9y agoIf the same amount of people visited the page containing that image, bandwidth would be a lot more with all the page content loading up. Is there good bandwidth and bad bandwidth? Image author can embed watermarks, credits, branding into images. Make use of the fact the image is out there.