You gotta love hotlinkers

[mellenig]

One of the password/sharing forums had posted links to a load of galleries with no htaccess in into all the pics folders.

Now all the hotlinked traffic is being redirected to a brand new site I was going to buy some traffic for today to get the trades going. Jumped from 100 hits an hour to 1200 hits an hour :dance:

I just love it when the thieving fuckers try and steal your bandwidth :)

[xcite-tv]

One of the password/sharing forums had posted links to a load of galleries with no htaccess in into all the pics folders.

Now all the hotlinked traffic is being redirected to a brand new site I was going to buy some traffic for today to get the trades going. Jumped from 100 hits an hour to 1200 hits an hour :dance:

I just love it when the thieving fuckers try and steal your bandwidth :)


I just found out about all this yesterday and protected our site before anything happened

thankfully

[dvtimes]

One of the password/sharing forums had posted links to a load of galleries with no htaccess in into all the pics folders.

Now all the hotlinked traffic is being redirected to a brand new site I was going to buy some traffic for today to get the trades going. Jumped from 100 hits an hour to 1200 hits an hour :dance:

I just love it when the thieving fuckers try and steal your bandwidth :)

hi

what is the password site?

[mellenig]

This is url URL (http://fusker.lewww.com/) more image sharing than passwords.

[Rosie]

You can request that your fuskered site is removed and not fuskered again - I did that with Shadowslaves last summer and they've been as good as their word thus far :)

[mellenig]

You can request that your fuskered site is removed and not fuskered again - I did that with Shadowslaves last summer and they've been as good as their word thus far :)

Thanks Ill keep that in mind but at the moment its sending quite a bit of traffic.

Id never heard of fusker.com before looks like they have a lot of users.

[gawdi]

You can request that your fuskered site is removed and not fuskered again - I did that with Shadowslaves last summer and they've been as good as their word thus far :)

I requested this quite a few time with no result.... in the end got Andy Mc to install some wizzy code on the server... Still get fuskered, they get nothing...

Its interesting though, fusker is now selling advertising!!

[Scotty.T]

I saw an increase in sales when I got fuskered!! Traffic increased dramatically for 2-3 days then died off. Increase in sales was just after this. I might fusker myself again sometime and see what happens :)

[Geezer]

So what do you do, redirect so that when an image or anything is called it will redirect. Do you put the directory path and then where you want it to go?
So whatever is called from that directory will go where you want.

[Geezer]

I thought you can only hotlink to other images, come on spread the word ;)

[Scotty.T]

Well actually I didn't do anything. They do only hotlink the images as such but they also provide a link to the site. I saw more traffic to the index page as opposed to the gallery pages they fuskered. The funny thing is I thought I had anti-hotlinking set-up on my htaccess but they got through it.

I guess you can do it in your htaccess and send them anywhere you want. :)

[Geezer]

Well actually I didn't do anything. They do only hotlink the images as such but they also provide a link to the site. I saw more traffic to the index page as opposed to the gallery pages they fuskered. The funny thing is I thought I had anti-hotlinking set-up on my htaccess but they got through it.

I guess you can do it in your htaccess and send them anywhere you want. :)

I don't think you can redirect to an html page though. I suppose we could add fuck off big watermarks with the URL and then let it be fuskered, but I really can't see any benefit.

I would still like to know how mellenig is redirecting to another page/site, what am I missing?

[WordsforHire]

omg what is this fuskered thingy?

[Scotty.T]

I don't think you can redirect to an html page though. I suppose we could add fuck off big watermarks with the URL and then let it be fuskered, but I really can't see any benefit.

I would still like to know how mellenig is redirecting to another page/site, what am I missing?
I don't know enough about htaccess to say yay or nay about redirecting to an html based on the referrer but I do it with other simple page redirects. I think someone was talking more in depth about this elsewhere. I'll have a look. Would be nice to know what mellenig does for sure.

[Scotty.T]

omg what is this fuskered thingy?
It's basically a site where people can quite easily steal the content from your web site and post it for all to see. Fuskers!!!

[Scotty.T]

Nah can't find it just yet. I'll take a look again later.

[morefodder]

I don't think you can redirect to an html page though. I suppose we could add fuck off big watermarks with the URL and then let it be fuskered, but I really can't see any benefit.

I would still like to know how mellenig is redirecting to another page/site, what am I missing?

I found this .. might be worth a try

.htaccess
Hotlink Protection
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://webpimps.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.webpimps.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://webpimps.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.webpimps.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216.222.134.77.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216.222.134.77:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.webpimps.com/hotlink.html

This htaccess script will protect you from hotlinking. Once you upload the htaccess file,
then in hotlink.html just put the code below. There is no need to design a page for the
surfer here, as the browser won't display this page to the surfer. You could also redirect
the hotlink hit to an image that said something like "Visit YourSite.com", just make sure
that the image is in a folder that doesn't get affected by this htaccess hotlinking protection.


.. but I'm no authority by any means. Let us know if it works !

[morefodder]

.. or even ..

http://www.devnewz.com/devnewz-3-20051013AdvancedHotlinkProtection.html

[Scotty.T]

I'm gonna give these a go tomorrow. I've got the combination to detect the variations in fusker I just wasn't sure what the rewrite rule to redirect to an html was.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_referer} ^http://(www\.)?.*(-|.)fusker(-|.).*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_referer} ^fusker+$ [NC]


Thanks, I will let you know.

[Joe A]

If you complain to them you find this message if you type in your sites url:

"That URL has been banned for illegal content, on the owners request, or because it is a members only page!"

I sent them a polite email while blocking it's ip at the same time :)

[mellenig]

I don't think you can redirect to an html page though. I suppose we could add fuck off big watermarks with the URL and then let it be fuskered, but I really can't see any benefit.

I would still like to know how mellenig is redirecting to another page/site, what am I missing?

Im not redirecting from Fusker its when they copy the image url its redirecting you will only see the broken image on the fusker page. I ended up up with 1537 physical clicks on trades from that traffic source yesterday. Looks like they kill it pretty quickly once htaccess goes up.

It had also been linked from lots of other picture sharing forums as well which probally a lot of the traffic came from a lot still coming today as well.

I dont think 1 or 2 galleries would send that much traffic it was only quite a bit as it was 30 galleries Id forgotten to put htaccess in which where fuskered :asshole:

[Geezer]

Im not redirecting from Fusker its when they copy the image url its redirecting you will only see the broken image on the fusker page. I ended up up with 1537 physical clicks on trades from that traffic source yesterday. Looks like they kill it pretty quickly once htaccess goes up.

It had also been linked from lots of other picture sharing forums as well which probally a lot of the traffic came from a lot still coming today as well.

I dont think 1 or 2 galleries would send that much traffic it was only quite a bit as it was 30 galleries Id forgotten to put htaccess in which where fuskered :asshole:

Ahhhh, no I see.

That is a lot of people copy and pasting the image URL though, Imagine if you could get them to your site another way. Like redirecting when the image is called.

[xcite-tv]

I found this .. might be worth a try


.. but I'm no authority by any means. Let us know if it works !


I tried a different htaccess code the other day and had loads of trouble with banners etc not working
so all those are a different domain now but still have a few small problems with images on webmaster pages for some reason

[mellenig]

Ahhhh, no I see.

That is a lot of people copy and pasting the image URL though, Imagine if you could get them to your site another way. Like redirecting when the image is called.

I think a lot of the clicked traffic was coming from the other forums Im going to go through my refferers today and look at listing more up there.

[mellenig]

I tried a different htaccess code the other day and had loads of trouble with banners etc not working
so all those are a different domain now but still have a few small problems with images on webmaster pages for some reason

This is a basic htaccess to stop hotlinkers

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com/
RewriteRule /* http://www.redirecteddomian.com [R,L]

Ray of webmastersguide has some good info on htaccess here (http://www.webmastersguide.com/htaccess-cgi/htaccess.htm)

He mentions protecting movies by htaccess on that page but the best way of protecting those from hotlinking Ive found is antihotlinker (http://antihotlinking.com/)