Bypass imageshack hotlinking ban

Going to a site and getting a "hotlinking has been disabled" message?


getting frustrated and begging for non imageshack links.. help is at hand. Follow any of the following methods and bypass the hotlink protection.


Why does this occur?
Basically its imageshacks way of making sure the same site is not using a hellish amount of babdwidth. They monitor requests from the referrer log(which is basically the header info sent whenever you request a image from site hosted on imageshack. If they find same site using lots of bandwith with large BW consuming images, they ban that site alltogether.

So whats the point?
Well the thing is that as of now imageshack uses referrer header info to track what site is requesting the image. Here we can stop the header from being sent and thus prevent imageshack from knowing which site is requesting info...


So i will keep the whole referrer thingy disabled then...?
Well you shouldn't... cos there are many sites which won't work if you do that. So better do it per site basis or session to session basis whenever you need it disable the referrer logging and the re enable.

In the following pages i present the tools to do just that for all 3 main browsers. firefox, opera and IE.

just see the table of contents select your browser and go.....

Note: Just clear the cache/history of your browsers for this to be working. it might fail otherwise.