Project journal photos linked in post no longer showing

Bug Reports
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Platform: Website

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome 120.0.6099.201

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/afriherps

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Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):
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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): The images/photographs I’ve hosted on Google Drive (and linked via html tags) are no longer displaying in the project journal posts. Only the image icon is showing. These used to work until recently and the links are still working for anyone to access. Any way to fix these, or to understand why they are no longer working? Thanks

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Can you post some of the example links as links here? They aren’t accessible via the project page.

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Sorry, it was just showing the image and not the link:
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1vChngACyJa1adwUa_yoGtwTFGVqnXaV6”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1qHvWw5EJgaL5upFsPXYnBrgJ-bBVPmu8”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1_Zx1k-2j6U5DY-JQlLQ3UhBE0k0WnsN_”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1KJwNbBvJDP0AxSYs_zOytYTkRZFVGgQd”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1thSeMfp3vAJ709ayOpZPAOTnTu2j_nBU”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ogpKY66D7iiznU3aoLroBMAIQsuZ3aM0”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=14177x4yyoRWOf5wFSoqaqHf9jj66h1Vt”>
img src=“https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=13Ex_2uDueihXTy-T6wPVypOFVxvRhfzQ”>

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it might be a Google problem.

when i look at the Console and Network monitor in my browser, it looks like the request for the image is failing with a 403 Forbidden error, and referrer policy is strict-origin-when-cross-origin.

i think that means that Google won’t let non-Google webpages use these images any more. i tried setting up a simple test html page (code below), and i see the same problem as in the iNat journal page.

<html>
<body>
<img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=13Ex_2uDueihXTy-T6wPVypOFVxvRhfzQ">
</body>
</html>
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Looks like you are correct. https://support.google.com/sites/thread/253003338/images-from-google-drive-in-embedded-html-no-longer-working?hl=en

Perhaps it will be sorted out in future. Any suggestions for hosting a couple figures/photos without a paywall? Thanks

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it’s probably not something you should make a habit of, but just until the problem is solved at Google, you could just upload the images on a dummy casual observation, and then point your project journal to those images.

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I would like to point out that this isssue will never be fixed on Google’s side. It is a deliberate choice on their part to disable this functionality https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/319531488

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