How to protect my bandwidth (iframe)

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Hi I am building a movie streaming website with a paid google drive storage. Have used openload service for a while but found all those pop up ads very annoying ( also dealing with inactive files is time consuming).

Anyways, with google drive storage, I have to embed the movie link in my wordpress website like this '<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxxx"></iframe> and obviously the link is visible in source code.

Now, what concerns me the most is that because the google drive is a paid service, I don't want people to copy and paste my google drive link in their website and steal my bandwidth.

I have been trying to find the solution to this for the last few days with no luck.

Is there any way to protect my bandwidth?

By the way, I have enabled hotlinking prevention service with my web hosting provider but apparently it is only useful with iframe with the same domain which is not my case at all.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with this.

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
Hi I am building a movie streaming website with a paid google drive storage. Have used openload service for a while but found all those pop up ads very annoying ( also dealing with inactive files is time consuming).

Anyways, with google drive storage, I have to embed the movie link in my wordpress website like this '<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxxx"></iframe> and obviously the link is visible in source code.

Now, what concerns me the most is that because the google drive is a paid service, I don't want people to copy and paste my google drive link in their website and steal my bandwidth.

I have been trying to find the solution to this for the last few days with no luck.

Is there any way to protect my bandwidth?

By the way, I have enabled hotlinking prevention service with my web hosting provider but apparently it is only useful with iframe with the same domain which is not my case at all.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with this.

Thanks a lot in advance.
I use this, it works brilliantly
  • Built-In Advanced Hotlink Protection: Prevent thieves from linking directly to your images and files from their own sites, on forums, and even in emails. This prevents direct illegal piracy of your content and prevents hosting account closures due to excessive bandwidth usage.
  • Automatic Right-Click Blocking: Right now, anyone can view the source code of your pages or easily copy the direct links to your files and images by simply right-clicking. When this feature is enabled, visitors will no longer be able to right-click on any part of your site.
  • Automatic Copy & Paste Blocking: You see this done all the time and it can jeopardize your search engine rankings. There are site owners out there that will simply copy & paste your content and post it on their sites. When this feature is enabled, no one will be able to copy and paste any part of your content.
  • Works Right Out Of The Box In Seconds: Upload and activate the plugin. In literally just 1-click you can protect all of your content across your entire site.
https://wpcontentguard.com/
 
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for that you will have to host files on your own server. i think you cant protect files from different websites.
 
It would be useful if you include what kind of script you are using for your website. What kind of CMS etc ?

If it is wordpress than i guess you can find some plugins that would hide your embeded links. Else you will need to hire a coder to make you a custom script that will obfuscate your iframes so they cant be copied.
 
Hello. Thank you all for your awesome responses. I really appreciate it. But sadly, the suggestions given were already tried and they were not really doing much to prevent the bandwidth from being stolen.

@virtualpurity, I am quite new to building my own website and rely heavily on wordpress plugins (I use wordpress). I have been trying to find wordpress plugins to make the embed code hidden but no luck there.

I am more than happy to hire coder to help me with this problem of mine with of course reasonable fee.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks!
 
Hello. Thank you all for your awesome responses. I really appreciate it. But sadly, the suggestions given were already tried and they were not really doing much to prevent the bandwidth from being stolen.

@virtualpurity, I am quite new to building my own website and rely heavily on wordpress plugins (I use wordpress). I have been trying to find wordpress plugins to make the embed code hidden but no luck there.

I am more than happy to hire coder to help me with this problem of mine with of course reasonable fee.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks!
So you didn't look at the plugin I suggested? It works well, but it's your call good luck
 
So you didn't look at the plugin I suggested? It works well, but it's your call good luck


Hi thank you for your reply. I have enabled hotlinking prevention service with my web hosting provider and have been using wp content copy protection plugin but they are not really helping. As hotlinking prevention only works with iframe with the same domain which is not my case and with right click prevention plugin, you can still see the inspect element with shift key + F10 I think.


I was trying to find the plugins you suggested. Are they wordpress plugins? I can't find any of them.

Thanks
 
Hi thank you for your reply. I have enabled hotlinking prevention service with my web hosting provider and have been using wp content copy protection plugin but they are not really helping. As hotlinking prevention only works with iframe with the same domain which is not my case and with right click prevention plugin, you can still see the inspect element with shift key + F10 I think.


I was trying to find the plugins you suggested. Are they wordpress plugins? I can't find any of them.

Thanks
I did put the link in the reply, worth a look
https://wpcontentguard.com
I use it, very effective
 
Hello. Thank you all for your awesome responses. I really appreciate it. But sadly, the suggestions given were already tried and they were not really doing much to prevent the bandwidth from being stolen.

@virtualpurity, I am quite new to building my own website and rely heavily on wordpress plugins (I use wordpress). I have been trying to find wordpress plugins to make the embed code hidden but no luck there.

I am more than happy to hire coder to help me with this problem of mine with of course reasonable fee.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks!

Hello,

First of all you can not embed links from google drive directly like that with :

Code:
<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxxx"></iframe>

Because your account will be reported and banned.
Once solution is to get a Google Proxy Script. For this you will need a VPS with unlimited Bandwidth and a proper cache setup.
Your link needs to be encrypted so it will not be removed from Google Drive.

I see many people are using scripts from juicycodes which includes Advanced Hotlink Protection, you can google it and try it yourself.
 
Hello,

First of all you can not embed links from google drive directly like that with :

Code:
<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/xxxxxxxxx"></iframe>

Because your account will be reported and banned.
Once solution is to get a Google Proxy Script. For this you will need a VPS with unlimited Bandwidth and a proper cache setup.
Your link needs to be encrypted so it will not be removed from Google Drive.

I see many people are using scripts from juicycodes which includes Advanced Hotlink Protection, you can google it and try it yourself.


Hello

Thank you for your response. About google drive embed links, I didn't know that it is not allowed because embedded (iframe) links are provided by google drive!!!!!
 
Hello

Thank you for your response. About google drive embed links, I didn't know that it is not allowed because embedded (iframe) links are provided by google drive!!!!!

You didnt understand me correctly, you CAN and you are ALLOWED to embed links on your website, but since your are embedding COPYRIGHT Materials you can get reported and banned. That is why its recommended to use the Google Drive Proxy..
 
You didnt understand me correctly, you CAN and you are ALLOWED to embed links on your website, but since your are embedding COPYRIGHT Materials you can get reported and banned. That is why its recommended to use the Google Drive Proxy..

Thank you for clarifying that. Silly me he he. I've had a look at the google proxy script from juicycodes as you suggested and although I don't understand half of what it says as I am not very good with those technology terms, it sounds like what I have been looking for. Thank you.

Now I need to find a good encryption tool to encrypt the links. Any suggestions?

Thank you again for your time and kindness. Appreciate it very much.
 
You can probably make a script that will change the url of the gdrive link so that it is on your server shortlinked and to load a unique shortlink for each url
so that each gdrive link has an unlimited unique permutations of shortlinks and only 1 works which is the latest
you can opt to only change it every x pageviews to that page where the link is to save on server performance
this way you can let the script whether the origin of the request to the link is from your own website and if not or direct to null the shortlink
 
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