ArticlesThe hotlink protection tool is a safeguard that protects your website content, such as images and videos.
By doing this, only the authorized user can access it, and no one can steal your content.
In simple terms, it prevents other parties from directly linking the content to your resources and also preserves your bandwidth from theft and external linking.
For instance, imagine that www.example.com hosts an image on its server and another website wishes to feature the same image.
Instead of downloading the image using valid credentials and hosting it on their server, they might choose to directly link to the content from the example website and display it on their site.
Doing this will affect your website's performance, like an escalation in server cost, loading time, and copyright issues, and impact both revenue and traffic.
