@Adam @rkfischer
Hotlinking of my images to other websites is a perennial problem for me, at any one time I've got maybe 10-12 images hotlinked. Apart from obvious copyright issues and toxic backlinks you lose control over the intended use of your images. Two of my hotlinked images have appeared on websites I really do not want to be associated with and in one case an image was then widely reposted on social media with the hotlinking site's added white supremacist byline. I managed to get the image removed through DMCA take-down requests because they were US sites and it is US legislation. Take down requests also work in the EU where there is similar legislation, but in my experience they do not work in numerous other countries, e.g., Russia, Korea, Iran, Panama, where they are ignored by both sites and web hosting companies. Unfortunately, the bulk of my hotlinks come from countries that ignore.
This problem would be greatly reduced if we had access to our .htaccess file. I can understand why Weebly might not want this, but the ability to block specific (or range of) IPs from linking to our sites could easily be achieved without directly accessing the .htaccess file. And it would be in Weebly's interests too by reducing bandwidth usage.
The IP blocking apps don't work because they only block actual visitors, not links. I understand hiding source code is not a viable option either because of workarounds. Is there really no way then to block hotlinking in Weebly without access to .htaccess?
