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I want to know if I can hotlink facebook profile pictures for every who signup to website using facebook connect?
Facebook allow get users profile picture using
https://graph.facebook.com/[ID]/picture?type=square
but is hot-linking of profile picture is allowed or not otherwise I will have to cache them on my own server. Thanks.
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Hotlinking happens when someone displays an image from your site by using its web link directly. They get to display the image on their website and have it sourced from your website. The image is extracted from the source website's server each time it loads.
Images are most frequently hotlinked, but audio files, movies, flash animations, and other digital assets can also be hotlinked. Since hotlinking requires the website hosting the file to use its own bandwidth to load it on your site, it's considered bad etiquette.
Updated on October 4, 2018. Hotlinking is known as the act of stealing someone's bandwidth by linking directly to their website's assets, such as images or videos.
The largest issue at stake with hotlinking is copyright infringement. Since the hotlink directs to another file, no actual 'copy' of the work has been made. This technicality has created a legal loophole that allows image users to display content they don't own without committing copyright infringement.
There's no issue using that link directly in an img tag as the src.
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