# Disallow anonymous users from viewing image & file URLs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335 "2016-02-29T15:55:44Z")
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### Author: ![chrisc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisc/32/119982_2.png) [@chrisc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chrisc)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 9:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallow-anonymous-users-from-viewing-image-file-urls/40335/29 "2025-03-28T09:08:56Z")

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The Image Guardian plugin doesn’t work with the latest Discourse, I’ve opened an issue for this at GitHub:

[https://github.com/muhlisbc/discourse-images-guardian/issues/4](https://github.com/muhlisbc/discourse-images-guardian/issues/4)

I did look at using the Secure uploads option but that requires S3 to be used and on the forum in question this isn’t the case. So it is still needed and hopefully @mbcahyono is able to solve this… 🤞

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