It depends on what you want ... Your current approach stops your image from loading on non-livejournal pages, including the latest image sites and google image search and whatnot. It does hose the people without Referer headers; that's a very small number in general but depending on how many of your friends follow the advice in the OP it maight be signficiant. Modifying your server's rules to block the offending latest image site might be a reasonable compromise.
Disabling the "latest things" removes you from the list of updates. So, it will slow down indexing of your entry by feed search engines (Technorati, PubSub, etc.) and maybe some of the web-based aggregators.
I'm not sure which approach is better for you. After glancing at your journal, I see that you don't have the bot blocking pref on and your feeds contain complete information. So, I'm guessing you'll want to stick with your current approach or maybe modify it.
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Date: 2006-05-10 09:34 pm (UTC)Your current approach stops your image from loading on non-livejournal pages, including the latest image sites and google image search and whatnot. It does hose the people without Referer headers; that's a very small number in general but depending on how many of your friends follow the advice in the OP it maight be signficiant. Modifying your server's rules to block the offending latest image site might be a reasonable compromise.
Disabling the "latest things" removes you from the list of updates. So, it will slow down indexing of your entry by feed search engines (Technorati, PubSub, etc.) and maybe some of the web-based aggregators.
I'm not sure which approach is better for you. After glancing at your journal, I see that you don't have the bot blocking pref on and your feeds contain complete information. So, I'm guessing you'll want to stick with your current approach or maybe modify it.