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Preventing Image Hotlinking

December 15th, 2006 in Site Related

I played around with a .htaccess generator. Now, I have disabled image hot-linking on my site. So, for those content leechers, RSS automated post idiots or just some plain idiot who love stealing my images, you will get this cool message:

Almost all my post have at least a smiley. Heh, if you happen to steal my content and forgot to remove all the smiley, there you go, you will see the message. It’s so cool, really.

Also, here’s an example of the dumb content stealer, stealing what I wrote about my gay friend (apparently he’s not gay though). I left a comment asking her to remove the article, and she deleted my comment and say “wtf?!?! is it a big deal? “. Well, no big deal. I just don’t like people to steal my content. Since she didn’t take any action, so I decided to enjoy the fun of replacing hot-linked images with some “OMG I AM SO BUSTED MESSAGE”.

Anyway, if any of you is using a web-based RSS reader, remember to tell me the link. I have to add them to the friendly list so that you will be able to see the images.

Updates: Thanks to andylkw for pointing out. Apparently the hot-linking message thing doesn’t work if you all clicked on the link with my site as the referrer. Now you should be able to see the message.

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