Trying to Debug Google Image Sharing Glitch

[kothmann]

I am posting this partly as an example to share with google support but also in case anyone else has any insight.

Since I started posting here almost 3 years ago, I have always embedded images that are stored on google drive, but all of those images are now not showing up!   

As an example, between the two horizontal lines below, there is an "img" tag linking to a google drive image, but it won't show up any more. (Please reply if you see the image!)





The google drive share permissions are fine, because you can just click on the link that is inside the "img" tag and it works
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1C_t5SU7J1sfdEconO5BcWz0LGj0_1YiL

For comparison, here is what the image looks like when shared from my new Flickr account.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53466844492_95a0a232cd_z.jpg

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=6573.0

[SailingMeeple]

Hi kothmann,

Interesting: when I look at your post on my laptop, I only see the image on Flickr.
When I look on the Tapatalk app, I do see the image from Google Drive and (eventually) also the image on Flickr. (That one took a bit longer to load on the app but it got there with a bit of patience.)

No clue why it wouldn't show using one device and does show on another...

[kothmann]

That's interesting and helpful.  Thanks.  Just to confirm: on Tapatalk, there is an image between the horizontal lines (from the "hr" tag)?

I have had this google drive failure intermittently before, typically where some images in a post will load and others won't.  It would always resolve within a day or two.  But now it seems to be all images fail all the time on all of my devices.   

[SailingMeeple]

Yes, exactly: on Tapatalk I see both the images (between the horizontal lines and the one at the end of the post).
On my laptop, I only see the one at the end of the post.
Hope it helps! 

[Snearone]

Hey, I saw your previous message on this subject in one of the topics.
Personally, I've never had a problem with your photos, I've always liked that you insert them in full size without scaling.
I checked then on three browsers on PC (firefox, opera, chrome) on my phone on two (firefox, chrome) and have not encountered any problems both on the site and via tapatalk, via home internet and mobile.
In addition I also recently looked at CarcC from another country and different PC, also no problems with your photos.

[Scott]

I can also see the photos on Tapatalk.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[kothmann]

I checked then on three browsers on PC (firefox, opera, chrome) on my phone on two (firefox, chrome) and have not encountered any problems both on the site and via tapatalk, via home internet and mobile.
In addition I also recently looked at CarcC from another country and different PC, also no problems with your photos.

Wow, thanks!  Confusing…

I can also see the photos on Tapatalk.

Thanks

[Snearone]

Update: it stopped working

I've looked into it, and other people were aproaching the same problem
https://support.google.com/sites/thread/253003338/images-from-google-drive-in-embedded-html-no-longer-working?hl=en
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/10/upcoming-changes-to-third-party-cookies-in-google-drive.html

generating direct link with https://www.labnol.org/embed/google/drive/ works, but I wouldn't call it a good solution

[kothmann]

Thanks @Snearone for the very informative links.

Ugh.  I’m hoping they can fix it somehow but not optimistic.

[Decar]

Probably a security thing to stop gdrive / photos being used to host images on sites.

@kothmann If it helps, I can set you up with an SFTP to upload images to that are easy to embed.

[kothmann]

Well, a month on and there seems to be no fix from Google, so I think it has to be a new security "feature".

I discovered a pretty simple edit that seems to work.  Just use this format for the img tag:

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[img]https://drive.google.com/thumbnail?id=<insert google file id here>&sz=w350[/img]
The "w350" specifies the width.

I updated my first forum post -- perhaps a few others can confirm that they see the image at the top of this post:
https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=4962.msg76193#msg76193

I may try to work my way through all ~800 of my posts and update the image links... good memories 

Thanks everyone for your help.

[SailingMeeple]

I see the image! Update: I checked it on both the app on my phone and on my laptop. I see the image in both! Woohoo!
Glad you found a way around the new security 'feature'  .