TGP Hot Linker

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Originally posted by Dzinerbear
Hey BD, thanks for clearing up the nationality of that site. I just assumed it was Japanese since my site was recently featured in that Japanese G-Men magazine.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

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haha don't worry. I shit you not when they first started hotlinking me, I changed all the filenames of the images they were hotlinking and replaced the old ones with this image so that it showed up on that board instead.
Yeah, yeah, Godzilla is Japanese and not Chinese but eh. I had fun with it.
So every image of mine that was hotlinking instead showed up as Godzilla. Hundreds of Godzillas throught that board for a day before I pressed the button to disable all the hotlinking.

Okay, regarding disabling hotlinking.

This folder in which the hotlinked images reside is my TGP folder that I use for all of my gallery submissions. So, if I disable hotlinking won't I be screwing TGPs as well. Aren't they hotlinking my thumbnail that appears in their TGP.

That's why I chose the root of blocking the club1069 domain.

BTW, BD I loved the godzilla story.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

bump

I'm still hoping someone can answer my question. If I put an htaccess file to stop hotlinking, won't I also be stopping the TGPs from "hotlinking" to my thumbnail samples? Or are they not hotlinked?

BTW, they reside in the same folder as the images that are being hotlinked.

Thanks
Dzinerbear

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Originally posted by Bec
??????? I got to it just fine http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

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Well it was suspended when I went there LOL Now it's working. Someone paid there bill LOL

TGPs do not hotlink your thumbs unless you specifically pointed to your server directory when adding your gallery. If you uploaded your image then don't worry about hotlinking cuz they are NOT!

If you did submit to TGPs and used hotlinking for your thumbs, then you have to figure out a different solution. What is your directory structure? If you store 'thumbs' & 'images' in separate directories then just enter an anti-hotlinking .htaccess in every 'images' directories while leaving your 'thumbs' directories wide open.

hope these suggestions help.

cheers,
Luke