How come all the JPG images are broken on SpiderFan?
They’re not. Just because you see little boxes with “X” in them doesn’t mean that it’s Spiderfan that’s broken. Most likely, you’ve configured something so that SpiderFan thinks those images are being used on somebody else’s website. So it’s blocking them deliberately. First, you have to understand what “deep linking” is. That’s when other sites (i.e. not SpiderFan) directly reference an image that lives on the SpiderFan site. Why would they do that? Well, by referencing our images, the website gets the advantage of offering you the image, but they don’t have to pay for the network traffic when you download that image. Deep linking an image is called “leeching”. It’s basically “stealing”. Worse – it’s like stealing a car, then coming back each week to steal petrol too! Sites that leech steel content and bandwidth. We don’t like that. So we have a mechanism in place that blocks that. The way this mechanism works is that whenever you load an image, we insist that the image is embedded in
