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Photobucket direct linking
Ok, so yes, direct linking is bad, but why does Photobucket provide you a direct link? Like if you're looking at pics, and you click on a pic, it provides you with a link.... Why? Don't they know it's bad? ^.^;
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It's not bad to link to an image like this, because it's an HTML page (even though you can't clearly see it in the URL):
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
It is bad to link to an image like this:
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
See that the URL ends in GIF, which is an image. There are no ads on the page, and it's not possible to put ads on the page. If enough people clicked this link, that image would be removed.
If Photobucket provides you with a hotlink (ends in jpg, gif, png, etc), then you don't need to worry. I'm sure if they do that, they have some arrangement that makes them money, and that they won't universally delete the picture.
Remember that hotlinking isn't *always* bad. If you personally uploaded it somewhere, it's fine to hotlink to the place you uploaded it to. You can hotlink any image by just downloading it and uploading it somewhere. Or you can put .nyud.net after the top-level domain. So if you want to turn a bad hotlink:
example.com/image/stuff.jpg
into a good hotlink, do this:
example.com.nyud.net/image/stuff.jpg
See I added ".nyud.net" after the .com. If it was example.org, you would turn it into example.org.nyud.net. If it was test.example.net, you would turn it into test.example.net.nyud.net.
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