Please don't run your counter on my servers

I deeply understand that sharing other peoples resources makes sense sometimes. I just ask you to rethink your technical approach. Running your page view stats on my server comes with a serious disadvantage: my server logs and referrer reports are protected, hence you can't read your stats. Rest assured I'm really not eager to know who views your pages.

So please: when you copy my HTML code, be so kind and steal the invisible 1x1px images too. It's really not that hard to upload them to your server and edit my HTML in a way that your visitors' user agents request these images from your server.

Signing up at a free counter service not adding hidden links to all your pages gives less hassles than my reaction when I get annoyed.

Disclaimer: I don't like it when you steal my code coz for some reasons it's often crappy enough to break your layout. Also copying code without permission is as bad as content theft. So don't copy, but feel free to ask.

Go to HTML Basix to figure out how you can block hotlinking with .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?sebastianx.blogspot.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|png)$ http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/img/misc/do-not-hotlink-beauty.jpg [R,NC]
But please don't steal or hotlink the offensive blonde beauty ;)

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