I have read something about and many people insert the google's urls in this file.
But I'm not sure at 100%

Where does the .htaccess file need to reside? I believe my server has a couple of them, so would the html_public folder block all images from all sub-folders?

Does this work for gallery images which are stored in the vb database and not in the filesystem?

I need to go about this a bit differently...

Is it possible to only list the sites you want to block, rather than listing the sites you want to allow?

It would be alot easier for me to just block certain sites.

basically with a bit of code changes it will do what you want but this is just to allow the sites that you write in there to be allowed as its designed to stop all other sites like google linking your site so no one reads your content they just steal your images!

this works for all versions correct?

Thanks a lot