diff --git a/static/.htaccess b/static/.htaccess
index 371aa0a..33cb373 100644
--- a/static/.htaccess
+++ b/static/.htaccess
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
 Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://oe7drt.com
 Header set Vary: Origin
 
+# Hotlink images prevention
+# rewrite to the `hotlinked.png` image and show this to any
+# hot-linking origin page
+# https://techexpert.tips/apache/apache-prevent-image-hotlinking/
+
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !hotlinked\.png$
 RewriteCond "%{HTTP_REFERER}" "!^$"
 RewriteCond "%{HTTP_REFERER}" "!oe7drt.com" [NC]
-RewriteRule "\.(gif|jpg|png)$"    "https://oe7drt.com/hotlinked.png"   [R,L]
+RewriteRule "\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$"    "https://oe7drt.com/hotlinked.png"   [R,L]
+
+# sends a 403 Forbidden
 
-#SetEnvIf Referer "oe7drt\.com" localreferer
-#SetEnvIf Referer ^$ localreferer
-#<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif)$">
+# SetEnvIf Referer "oe7drt\.com" localreferer
+# SetEnvIf Referer ^$ localreferer
+# <FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif)$">
 #    Require env localreferer
-#</FilesMatch>
+# </FilesMatch>
 
diff --git a/static/hotlinked.png b/static/hotlinked.png
index 871dbfd..0d2fee6 100644
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