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Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking

Posted by Zonk on from the good-burgers-bad-move dept.

naught writes "Fuddruckers, a hamburger chain, hotlinked to a flash game developer's Burgertime clone on their 'Fuddrockers' page. When the developer noticed an abnormal amount of traffic coming from their website, he decided to let the company know how he felt -- and maybe teach them about hotlinking.." From the post: "So, I redirected everything coming from Fuddruckers.com. (learned all about .htaccess files also... neat!) Wrote a nice little message pointing out how incredibly stupid their web developer is. And then redirected the main page to a pleasant little website showing photographs of slaughterhouses. And also opened up some more popups, for those that don't have popup blockers."

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  1. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahaha! nice... first

  2. Re:Hotlink THIS by Nerd+Systems · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, first post... I feel totally special... *Bows to the audience* Everyone, enjoy the free games on my fiance's site... unlike Fuddruckers, she isn't being a bandwith whore... :)

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  3. Re:Hotlink THIS by Nerd+Systems · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I suggest the 1 pounder... Huge monster... Very enjoyable... Need a wheelchair to get out of the place...

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  4. Re:Hotlink THIS by SysSupport · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least someone is going to get laid, assuming that "girlfriend" does not mean "stalking victim".