Alden Bates' Weblog
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myspace tubgirled
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You may recall I was previously having trouble with people on myspace hotlinking to my LJ icons like crazy. Previously I redirected the image requests from the hotlinking sites to a 5120-pixel-wide gif in order to mess up their layouts.
This, however, doesn't seem to have discouraged hotlinking much. I suspect the problem is that many of the myspacers have page layouts which are already so fubar they don't notice when my gif image screws things up further. So a couple of days ago I went to step 2.
Step 2 involved me changing the redirection to a copy of the infamous tubgirl image (If you haven't seen it before, for the love of God, don't Google it). It's amazing how quickly the hotlinking disappears when people suddenly find they have one of the foulest images in existence on their web page.
Posted January 31, 2006 6:35 PM
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Tracked on March 22, 2006 6:49 PM
Hey man,
Found you by googling "myspace hotlinking". I've been looking for htaccess code to do what you've done; block the myspace brats from hotlinking to my images. But I haven't had much luck yet, I haven't found code that works.
Care to share? I would appreciate it. :)
Trish
aka greenfreak
Posted by: Trish | March 26, 2006 1:11 PM