Dealing with Deep-Linking to Your Online Photos?

Pig Hogger asks: "I've had my own hobby website since 1993, and over the years it has expanded to be quite a reference for the domain I am covering (some pro websites list it as additional reference, and so does Wikipedia. Google page-ranks it amongst the top). Every so often, I peruse the logs, most especially looking at the referrers to see where people come from, and once in a while, I notice that some webloggers deep-link to an image on my site. I do not mind too much when it's on-topic, but when it's not *AND* it's sucking-up bandwidth, I tend to be irked. Or worse, when you can't go look at the referring page without registering on the weblog site. In those cases, I change the picture filename (and the corresponding webpage that calls it), and I substitute a smaller (and most often, naughty) picture. What other tricks those of you are facing the same problem have to address this problem?"

Comments

Re:Use a CGI script to block them.

[raju1kabir]

And your site is called what? Hm. Haven't heard of it, probably. Wonder why. I don't allow cookies by default. There's no reason every single site should use a cookie. It's like gratuitous javascript. I'm not coming to a website for the cookies. If a site has a legitimate reason for it (Slashdot log in cookies, for example), that's fine. I'm not a paranoid lunatic, but you, sir, are an asshole.

If this is the intensity of your reaction to learning that some Slashdot joker (me) may or may not be requiring cookies on a site you've never heard of and never will, then it's safe to say you are definitely some kind of lunatic, even if not specifically the paranoid kind.