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Why is hotlinking bad?
Hotlinking is a serious problem for many Joomla sites, especially those that contain a lot of images, also inside articles. It is a bad practice because: It steals your hosting bandwidth (account resources) and costs site owner’s money. It may also impact your site’s performance.
What is hotlinking of images?
Image hotlinking is when someone embeds your images on their website by linking them directly from your website. It’s bad enough when people use your media without permission, but image hotlinking adds insult to injury since it can also slow down your site.
How can I prevent my images from being hotlinked?
Use a WordPress plugin to add a watermark to hotlinked images. Prevent hotlinking by adding a few lines of code to the .htaccess file of your web server host or WordPress. Remember to include exceptions so that Google, Facebook, and other search engines and social media sites can access your images via hotlink.
What can I do about hotlinking on WordPress?
Use Pixsy’s automated takedown tool to tracks your images online and issue a takedown notice. Edit the URL of the hotlinked image to break the link, or replace it with another image or message. Use a WordPress plugin to add a watermark to hotlinked images.
How can I Stop my work from being hotlinked?
While the laws are still catching up with the realities of digitization, there are plenty of proactive steps you can take to prevent hotlinking, and limit the damage if you find out your work has been hotlinked. 1. Track your images It’s important to track your images.
What are some of the issues with hotlinking?
The largest issue at stake with hotlinking is copyright infringement. Since the hotlink directs to another file, no actual ‘copy’ of the work has been made. This technicality has created a legal loophole that allows image users to display content they don’t own without committing copyright infringement.