Here's somewhat delicate topic. As you may know, images at ipernity are "protected" against "download theft" with overlapping z.gif. However, that method really is not very effective because anyone who knows even a little how to see the page source or use browser's "inspect" tool, also knows how to open and download any image displayed on the web page.

Moreover, there is a minor design flaw in case of images shared under Creative Commons. If you share something marked as "CC Attribution", like all my resent images, only those who have ipernity account are able to download the image from the Actions menu. That is not enough, because Creative Commons means that the use under Creative Commons should be then allowed to everyone, no matter if they have ipernity account or not. Whether one then follows the instructions and ideas on how CC is supposed to work, is then up to the user:

creativecommons.org/use-remix/get-permission

On desktop browsers there is also an alternative easy workaround to get rid of the z.gif images. That can be done by installing Stylish extension for Chrome or corresponding add-on for Firefox, and then the Ipernity Dark style 2018 v1.0 for ipernity:

userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=ipernity&type=false

On bottom of that page you get download links for Stylish extension/add-on, which you have to get first, and then install and enable the Dark style 2018 v1.0 for ipernity. What you then get is z.gif removed from the pages shown via menu 'Actions > See all sizes' here at ipernity.

The limitation of this method is that it only works on few desktop browsers, and as far as I know, it doesn't work on mobile phone browsers.

More about this here, on my blog article:

www.ipernity.com/blog/serola/4716848