Hotlink protection does not allow other websites on the internet to directly link to the files on your website. For example, if another site on the internet uses a <img> tag to display an image from your site, then the image data is being transferred from the server where the image is located (your web hosting) to the browser of the end user. Thus the site who is using such a hot linked image tag is actually stealing on your bandwidth(data transfer limit)
Login to your Cpanel account and in the “Security” section go to “Hotlink Protection”.
Click on the “Enable” button.
You can specify additional image extensions to the ones already listed there.
That is all.
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