I remember getting banned on another forum ages ago because I was hotlinking to stuff I had found on Somethingawful and they had changed the pictures to a close up of a dick ejaculating, and someone found the thread later and reported me for "porn"
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It’s 2021. Who among you is still hot linking gifs?
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I can't believe we don't have a rule against it. Think of all the poor websites losing those megabytes to some supposedly high minded forum that's really full of uncaring slobs!
iirc, tinypic was the one responsible for recycling in a whole lotta porn pics
I remember it being considered kind of rude way back when in the before times, but it's not something I've heard even mentioned in so many years I'd assumed hotlinking was no longer a war crime.
What kids these days don't know is that when we die the internet god will judge each of us for out bandwidth stealing ways
Will this judgement directly impact the quality level of porn we'll have access to in our digital hereafter?
I used to never hotlink, because one time the host changed the gif link to a hell of a lot of exrement coming out of someone's body.
I also got the fear of god drilled into me about hotlinking, so I always upload. I've been using that right click add on for years and it is super easy.
I never rehost gifs, I just grab them off google and always have. Never had any issues doing that.
Guys, I'm 36. I had my own Geocities site and a 28.8k modem. Lol. Still not entirely sure what the term hotlink means here. Haha. Like, linking to an image/ GIF whenever it's hosted? Doesn't everyone do that all the time?
I used to host 'em, but I got lazy over the years, especially when you'd just get dedicated gif makers (especially in the case of the ever giffable wrasslin') and the sites that are basically a gif library (of often middling quality but oh well).
So when my previous posts end up as a barrage of degenerate hentai or something, that's the price I'll have to pay for playing with fire.
So when my previous posts end up as a barrage of degenerate hentai or something, that's the price I'll have to pay for playing with fire.
Mind you, this will be useful for adding to my evergreen gifs
Yeah but back then people would host them on their own website and they'd pay for the bandwidth, so anyone "hotlinking" from their website was essentially stealing their bandwidth.
Its why people would make it so porn or other stuff showed up when people hot linked from their website.
What I find funny about imgur is that I use it mostly as a rehosting site but sometimes forget to make it private or whatever, so I'll get downvotes for the random shit I put there. lol
Ah, I gotcha. So I guess, I mean, to answer the thread question, yes, I link to wherever I found the image/GIF. Lol. Always have. Ain't nobody got time to re-host.
I don't hotlink for lil mom and pop fan sites.
Does that make a difference? How the fuck do computers work?
Does that make a difference? How the fuck do computers work?
Damn millenials and their socialist bandwealth redistribution.
Era doesn't allow uploading of pics. So I hotlink.
It's all Era's fault.
Man remember when people had to worry about bandwidth when it came to images? It feels so long ago but it wasn't.
It's easy to download a picture, upload it with minimgur real quick and use that, and saves the high probability that whatever I'm wanting to link to might not work on here. I'm a firm truthful "no."
this, I am quite confused actually:/
Just to report this one.
You don't need to set up an account if you don't want and if you change the setting to automatically copy to clipboard it's literally just a case of right-click on image and choose 'Upload to imgur' rather than 'Copy image location', and you can paste it straight into a post.
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what the OP is suggesting. I think it's to do with being considerate of the image hosts bandwidth.