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For some datacenters, that 10% saving would be worth the effort and could push back costly maintenance to increase egress bandwidth.

And I would argue that beside Facebook, the end user right clicking and saving the image for them to use in an inappropriate manner ( downloading the image is not the issue, using it without permission would cause copyright infringement ) would be an issue for some of the website that are hosting the image.

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> For some datacenters, that 10% saving would be worth the effort and could push back costly maintenance to increase egress bandwidth.

No argument - my point was simply that very few sites on the web fall into that category.

> And I would argue that beside Facebook, the end user right clicking and saving the image for them to use in an inappropriate manner

That’s only true for a subset of sites, only to the extent that this wasn’t covered by fair use, and it came up enough that it was a common objection.

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