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I added my game, so now technically itch is hotlinking Y8. 🤣 https://eddieone.itch.io/banjo-panda Thank you

I’m sorry, I completely misread your post. I thought you were someone associated with Y8 since your account was just created and didn’t have any games on it. If they are your games we give you a tool to add iframe embeds on other sites, check it out here: https://itch.io/updates/introducing-game-embeds

Really sorry about the confusion, I’ll edit my original post to clarify.

As a developer, you should intentionally make games that will be picked up by other sites, more players and more money

It depends on what kind of developer you are and what your goals are. This is not true for everyone. In fact, it’s not true for the vast majority of people who upload html5 games to itch.io. Additionally, we took issue with the hotlinking specifically. These other portals could take the games and host them themselves, but they took the laziest approach possible.

Blocking distribution only gives short term value and eventually results in publishers removing those games

I’m not sure what you mean by short term value here. But in any case, we don’t work with publishers who mass publish HTML5 games for portals. We are a self publishing platform for developers to use directly. We want developers to have control over where their property is published.

If a developer wants to build a game packed full of ads, and get it loaded into as many portals as possible that’s fine for them. But, that has to be a choice the developer makes. I hope you understand out stance. Thanks