Why do people get mad at me when I link to pictures that they're hosting?

[wolf_meister]

Shalmanese

Linking to the HTML site that contains the image is generally the most polite way to do it.

Precisely !!!

[mhendo]

@Mr2001

Of course, that uses even more bandwidth than just linking to the image.

Yes, but at least the people who want to look at the image also have to look at the website that contains it, rather than simply seeing a stolen image on someone else’s website.