I agree!! It's so frustrating! When people do that for icons, I just don't even bother and move on to someone else's icons. There are so many good icon makers out there that I can be perfectly happy with ones that are easily available to everyone. But fic is another thing all together- there are some fics that I bookmark because I want to read them again, and I hate how often I come back later to find out they've been taken down or made private for 'personal reasons' or whatever the excuse of the day is.