Hotlink Protection via .htaccess Howto
Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Hotlinking means other sites embed my images/videos, causing traffic without real visitors. I use Apache to block this. The browser requests files, not the foreign site, so IP blocking is useless. Solution: check the HTTP Referer; allow empty or my domain, deny others. Not perfect, some software strips referers. ...