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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hmm, I've never seen that unless it's nsfw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s old internet etiquette. I think the point is that hotlinking asks someone else to serve content without giving them traffic, if that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does Randall putting "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding)" directly below each comic on the xkcd site count as permission?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

lol I forgot he does that! And yes definitely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It actually gets funnier than etiquette like the old poster mentioned. Some folks got pissed enough from people doing it that they would replace the images with goatse.