Last night I posted an image of Keira Knightly that I had found using Bing.
About an hour later that image was gone.......and had been replaced by a bawdy (indeed almost obscene) photo of a completely different woman.
How could that happen?
You can’t trust MS.
They changed it on the other end. That “img src” link you put up referenced a specific picture on someone else’s site. That person didn’t like you linking to their resources so they changed the picture on their end.
Probably the owner of that image noticed that you were stealing their bandwidth by using the image they were hosting. And then they can deliver whatever image they want when the browser requests Keira. It’s possible they have an automatic mechanism for detecting such abuse and replacing it with the bawdy image.
TL;DR You should have saved the image, uploaded it to say imgur and then used that image. Unless you’re very sure the owner doesn’t mind us using a bit o his bandwidth.
Some websites do not like hotlinking to their images. Their admins will intercept your hotlink and re-direct it to ‘usually’ a terse message that says ‘don’t do that anymore’. Some replace the message with a nasty pic that will get you in trouble with your friends and family, especially your mother..........
Take two photos stored on your hard drive and swap their names. This is probably what happened.
someone just took a new image and gave it the same name as your old image and copied it to the same place.
so, when someone’s web browser brought up the image (with the same name) the contents of that file were the new image