Barry Schwartz<p>Google's <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@johnmu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>johnmu</span></a></span> says carve-outs for hotlink protection (on images) is fine but not really seen much in 2025... <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hotlink-protection-39054.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seroundtable.com/google-hotlin</span><span class="invisible">k-protection-39054.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hotlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotlink</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/googleseo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>googleseo</span></a></p>