Unhappy Stat Checking

Published on 11 September 2005 in Asides. 2 Comments Tags: , .
At some point I'm going to catch on to the fact that I shouldn't look too closely at who is linking to me when I'm in a bad mood. Why? Because hotlinkers tick me off. Hotlinkers with no way for me to contact them to request that they cease and desist tick me off even more. I mean, the hordes of teenage angst infested Xanga blogs linking to an icon here or there are annoying on principle, but hardly damaging. All of the people using my Phantom of the Opera wallpaper, though, are pushing it. It's great that people like it, but, for the sake of my wallet, people, upload to your own server. Some days I just feel like pulling my hair out.

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  • Logan
    13 September 2005 at 3:57 pm

    I wrote a little tutorial .htaccess and hotlinking here. If you have access to an .htaccess file, it’s pretty easy to teach those kids a lesson.

  • Gnome
    13 September 2005 at 4:57 pm

    I’ve thought about messing with the .htaccess before, but I’ve been prevented for a couple of reasons, the first being that I like to be able to link to my own images/files from my domain to other places. But if things continue to go this way, I may break down and go that route. Or I’ll investigate changing the set-up of Gnomicons some so that I can do something downright evil to undesired hotlinkers ;)

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