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This is not only impolite (it eats up your victim's bandwidth), it's almost always a really bad idea. A '''Hot Linked''' item may have been removed by the original host (this is a big problem with [[YouTube]] links). The original host can be undergoing a performance problem. The original host may have changed its linking policy. The original host may be ''gone.'' The original host may have substituted a ''different'' (and often obscene) image for the one at that URL ... The list of possible badness goes on and on. |
This is not only impolite (it eats up your victim's bandwidth), it's almost always a really bad idea. A '''Hot Linked''' item may have been removed by the original host (this is a big problem with [[YouTube]] links). The original host can be undergoing a performance problem. The original host may have changed its linking policy. The original host may be ''gone.'' The original host may have substituted a ''different'' (and often obscene) image for the one at that URL ... The list of possible badness goes on and on. |
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Web forums are particularly bad for encouraging users to hotlink images from other sites (and restricting the ability users to edit their own posts later). It's not uncommon for a victim's site (such as the [[Uncyclopedia]] Babble Project at the peak of the Great Recession in 2008-09) to incur $100/month or more in additional hosting costs due to the resulting bandwidth overages. That's the point at which a [[Bastard Operator From Hell]] may well be tempted to have the webserver check the "Referer:" (sic) headers on requests and return a picture of the system administrator's backside (or worse) in place of the hotlinked images. |
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