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Everyone these days is so polite. OK, that was a bit of an exaggeration. But back in my day the web had a whole site high-bandwidth site specifically for educa
by marshray 13y ago
Everyone these days is so polite.
OK, that was a bit of an exaggeration. But back in my day the web had a whole site high-bandwidth site specifically for educating careless webmasters about the dangers of hotlinking: g o a t s e . c x.
It was used to great effect on things like auction sites where the original page html was not allowed to be changed after listing.
- jacquesm 13y agoThat was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that.
- nevvvermind 13y agoI once hotlinked an image posted on a forum, and they served the same link you provided. I never did a hotlink again.
- Trufa 13y agoThere was a post on reddit to a site that had hotlinked an image for it's background who suddenly found itself with a pornographic background.
- readme 13y agoI'm not sure if politeness is the motivator. Imagine if you had done that, for all hotlinks to your script. Then, it turns out a children's website is hotlinking your script. Some idiot at Company X decides that it's actually your fault, since its your script that did it. To save face, they get an expensive lawyer to sue you. Next thing you know, you're a registered sex offender.