• JohnDClay
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    4 months ago

    Hmm, I’ve never seen that unless it’s nsfw

    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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      4 months ago

      It’s old internet etiquette. I think the point is that hotlinking asks someone else to serve content without giving them traffic, if that makes sense.

      • threelonmusketeers
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        4 months ago

        Does Randall putting “Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding)” directly below each comic on the xkcd site count as permission?

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It actually gets funnier than etiquette like the old poster mentioned. Some folks got pissed enough from people doing it that they would replace the images with goatse.