ImgRed Image Hosting- Embed, Redirect or Link to images on website|blog without Hotlinking|Leeching Host bandwidth
09 Apr
Posted by Abdul Aziz as Web Services
ImgRed (Image Redirection) is a free online image hosting service that allows users to Embed, Redirect or Link to images from someone else’s website/blog to a forum, message board or even your own website/blog without actually hotlinking to the source image and leeching the original host’s bandwidth.
To do this, just copy the source image’s URL and prepend http://imgred.com/ to it. For example, http://imgred.com/http://example.com/pic.jpg. To display a thumbnail of the image, prepend http://imgred.com/tn/ to the URL
When this is done, the image is copied once to imgred.com’s server, and from then onwards the image is always served from imgred.com instead of the host site.
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Forrest
April 14th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
1This new service is a bit distressing. On the one hand, for people who participate in forums and blogs, it could be very handy. But on the other, for photographers, illustrators, and other artists, a service that lets people rebroadcast our work and hides the tracks is a little disturbing. If anybody else is concerned, I’ve written an article on opting out of imgRed / Image Redirection.
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