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How do community sites avoid hotlinking

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Anonymous
·Nov 18, 2019

How do sites like Reddit/Hashnode avoid hotlinking other sites? For example if I upload a picture from website A, is the thumbnail hosted by Reddit, and then on the post page does the image need to be hosted by them too? Or does it display the image embedded from website A ?