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If the user has visited someone else's site, they may have the hotlinked image cached and thus your page will load faster for them.



As pierrfar has shown, they disable any caching, so even if you use the same icon on several pages of your site the browser will have to re-download it every single time. Now all they need is to to log the client IP and client agent string and they have a fairly accurate global clickstreams for all users over all sites that use this service (not to mention what they could do with a cookie).




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