Sort:  

Hive hosts all images that Steemit used to host

Thanks! I see that now, I'm really happy about that.

If a domain displays resources on the website that are actually physically on another domain, this is called deep linking. The source domain has the right to prohibit deeplinking. There are also technical options to prevent deep linking by server rules.

grafik.png
It works in a similar way with other web servers.