Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop an Internet site, another person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links straight to your Internet site. That way, whenever a visitor opens their site, the images shall be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright issues that may develop or that someone could be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your website.
