I have many times had clients asking why users are able to upload pictures directly from their machine to AEM Sites pages using the Image component without passing through the DAM, which is a very good question. In this article, I explain how you can go about preventing this functionality and forcing users to use approved assets from the DAM: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aem-forcing-the-use-of-the-dam-for-images-by-closing-loopholes-b102...
