Cloudflare hotlink protection

[irene]

Hi,
I had enabled Cloudflare hotlink protection.
In the cdn I had before I could choose to make exception for every google site:
.Google.
There is something similar in Cloudflare? This is all ready included in Cloudflare hotlink rule? or my images are going to be disindexed from google images?

[sandro]

Hotlinking of images

Hi, I am trying to prevent hotlinking of images from my websites, by making a Firewall Rules, but it needs to allow Search engines like google and yahoo to index my photos! By searching the web I haven’t found a Firewall Rules that are confirmed to work I have come to this solution below. ( I am not a programmer; I can manage copy and paste) (http.request.method eq “GET” and http.referer ne “.example.com” and not http.user_agent contains “(googlebot| cf.client.bot | yahoobot )” and http.reques…

[irene]

1. I found this from Kinsta
   “Cloudflare have great hotlink protection already built in for free that you can enable. This is the recommended method as they have very fine-tuned rules for bots and other referrers that actually shouldn’t be blocked.”
2. I applied hotlink protection from Cloudflare a week ago. I searched today, from Chrome with Cache killer extension enabled, in Google Images, by my URL, and all my images are there.