Python vs JS Signed URLs: Hotlink Pirates Blocked

Short-lived links that die before they go viral.

#python #javascript #signedurls #expiry #hotlinking #hmac #viralcoding #codecomparison #media #security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5LSgTfZbE

Python vs JS Signed URLs: Hotlink Pirates Blocked #JavaScript

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Signed URL Expiry That Stops Hotlink Pirates

Short-lived links that die before they go viral.

#python #php #signedurls #expiry #hotlinking #hmac #viralcoding #codecomparison #media #security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWW_q6HVGMQ

Signed URL Expiry That Stops Hotlink Pirates #Python

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The trend to "thwart #hotlinking " ( https://serverfault.com/questions/300089/how-to-prevent-hot-linking-image-theft-bandwidth-theft-of-ressources-on ) is really going on my nerves.#Deviantart does it with ?token=

and pixiv has their own automator php (which at least stays peemalinkable )
https://embed.pixiv.net/decorate.php?illust_id=117167674&mode=sns-automator

Imagine a web where you need to link to a site and all images expire *shudder*

I mean sure steam will go bankrupt if i hl 8 images on a website barely visited yay

How to prevent hot linking ("image theft" / "bandwidth theft") of ressources on my site?

I'm trying to write the "ultimate" anti hot linking .htaccess... You can find many examples/tutorials/generators on the net but many of them are wrong or incomplete (or even both). These are the

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Setting up Anti Hot Linking Protections for ChatGPT

ChatGPTs web search sometimes embeds images into it's responses. When it does that, rather than serving from an OpenAI run cache, it embeds it directly from the original server, leaving the webmaster

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MySpace Hotlinking

If you had told me a year ago that I would be an active member of MySpace I would have laughed. From what I had seen of the social network back then, I had decided that it was simply a meeting place for people like “Kenny” from Can’t Hardly Wait. On top of that, most MySpace profiles I had seen at the time violated every principle of good design and web standards that I hold dear. Some much […]

Proving that Perplexity.AI Hotlinks Images in Results

https://video.infosec.exchange/videos/watch/790b52ac-921c-456e-9226-6f53826b45f2

Proving that Perplexity.AI Hotlinks Images in Results

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Avoid hotlinking images with Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy

An image on your site can be directly included in other sites. You end up with the costs of hosting and serving the image, while the other sites gain the benefits of showing your nice image on their page. With the response header Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy it is possible to inform the browser that images should only be usable by the same site or origin as the image, thus making hotlinking impossible.

Sjoerd Langkemper