Pics not showing for me in opera

I've got a boxed copy of AWeb around here, somewhere...

Entirely possible - but whatever network ****ery may be causing it, it's categorically not related to ISP filters (which would exhibit the same effects across browsers and devices, which is not what we're seeing) and can't be fixed by switching DNS servers ('cos I've already done that and it ain't fixed.)

 

They're not - I can prove it by using DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS. Also, the symptoms persist on a VPN connection, which my ISPs *cryptographically* aren't fiddling with.

 

Here's an interesting twist: the coconut crab image that won't load on my mobile is this:

Code:

https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/IofOgM0_Y79Hot-R_Cbs7DoB9Qc=/660x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/giant-coconut-crab-57bbf0cc3df78c8763928673.jpg

Look at the URL: the filename might end in .jpg, but that's a WebP. Could be confusing Firefox for Android, though why Firefox for Desktops is fine with it I don't know. Wonder what those other broken images look like... <goes to see>

EDIT: Well, the images in the linked build log thread aren't normal either:

Code:

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj583/ianovski/Bitfenix%20Shadow/bitfenix_zpsf5302fbb.jpg~original

If you visit that outside it being embedded, it actually takes you to a .html page with all the album's images in it. Hmm... I wonder if my mobile browser is doing something weird that's causing these servers to return non-image content - like stripping out certain parts of the URL for anti-tracking purposes? More experimentation needed!

 

Nope: disabled absolutely every privacy protection going, and still no pictures.

Could someone try installing a clean Firefox for Android and visit this thread, see if the pictures show?

 

problem solved, The site forces HTTPS resources and those aren't

they don't load for me either

So on that thread when I go to the images they don't exist. It is a thread from 2014 to be fair. That crab image also doesn't load on firefox although it is a weird link.

 

They seem to exist for me, but Photobucket gives me an album page rather than the raw image if I try to load the picture manually:

 

Works fine here on the desktop and the laptop, but not the mobile - and they're all running Firefox. Straaaaaaaange!

 

To add to this, that build log thread: in Firefox, all the images are showing as bare tags with no image; in Chrome, most are showing as bare tags with a broken image placeholder next to it... but some images are loading fine. Not only are we talking about the same connection here, we're talking the same machine - only the browser differs.

There's clearly summat going on there, and it looks like Chrome is less susceptible than Firefox.

EDIT:
Except that, having loaded the thread in Chrome, Firefox is now showing the same images - and missing the same images - as Chrome is, whereas before I did that all the images were broken. What the chuff?!

 

Is it possible Photobucket is hitting some sort of rate limit for hot linked images? At this point I'm really struggling to work out what could be causing it and if it's something we can do anything about.

 

Could be: we already know that those image links to the "original" images are nothing of the sort, and the crab picture is explained by it claiming to be JPEG but actually being WebP (though why Real Firefox is happy with that and Mobile Firefox is having none of it is a mystery.)