Hey, Am going to show you how to protect your site and files from hot linking using a tool in your CPanel.
Login to your CPanel and search for Hotlink Protection, example of an icon below and click on it
Your next page will be something like this
URLs allowed to access: These are list of URLs that you will give permission to access your files
Block direct Access: This is a list of file extensions separate with commas, anyone you add can’t be hot linked
Redirect Request: Normally, if you activate this when a user wants to hotlink a file, he will get a 403 Forbidden HTTP Error. But you can customize it to redirect to another link
When you have setup all the above to your desired, you can then protect hotlink!