While true, be advised that some consider it rude to hotlink images without permission
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoYou can put an exclamation point in front of the link to get the image directly
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 months ago
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hmm, I’ve never seen that unless it’s nsfw
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 months ago
It’s old internet etiquette. I think the point is that hotlinking asks someone else to serve content without giving them traffic, if that makes sense.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Does Randall putting “Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding)” directly below each comic on the xkcd site count as permission?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It actually gets funnier than etiquette like the old poster mentioned. Some folks got pissed enough from people doing it that they would replace the images with goatse.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You can embed the image, but I think you need to use the image link, rather than the comic page link:
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)
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Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Hmm. On one hand, the image link properly embeds while the comic link is just a little OBJ square that I can open. On the other hand, the comic link preserves the alt text.