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The classic counter-punch to resource linking is to make some of the resource grabs dynamic based on the referrer. I remember one site host who realized someon
by sageikosa 14y ago
The classic counter-punch to resource linking is to make some of the resource grabs dynamic based on the referrer. I remember one site host who realized someone was using his images for avatars on various forums, and changed the contents to p0rn.
- bradleyland 14y agoYou've got to be really careful when doing something like this. Basing the decision to display porn to users based on the value of the referrer (or any technical factor for that matter) is asking for trouble. Valid visitors' browsers should send your site as the referrer, but what if your check fails and a legitimate users is shown porn instead? What if you introduce a bug that causes many, or all, of your users to see porn instead of the intended content? Serving porn from a business oriented domain is never an option, IMO. It sucks when someone rips off your content, but you have to carefully evaluate the real impact it has on your business, not just the emotional impact that it has on your sense of ownership.
- sageikosa 14y agoI agree, doesn't have to be p0rn; just the example I remember.
- Cthulhu_ 14y agoThe less offensive form of this kind of hotlinking prevention is to provide a small-sized image with the URL of the website it was taken from, or a hotlinking notification, not pr0n unless you want to offend unsuspecting visitors. The person that hotlinks an image for usage as a forum avatar won't even realize it most of the times because his browser cache kicks in.
- sageikosa 14y agoIIRC, other users on the forum started complaining that the offending user was using pr0n, he (or the forum owner) then complained to the person from whom content was being leeched who promptly told them to suck it.