# Remote images are always downloaded

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-images-are-always-downloaded/400697
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-images-are-always-downloaded/400697 "2026-04-15T13:38:24Z")
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### Author: ![AlexVoss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alexvoss/32/546169_2.png) [@AlexVoss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexVoss)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-images-are-always-downloaded/400697/1 "2026-04-15T13:38:25Z")

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Hi,

We have a hosted instance of Discourse and are including images from our own website. This worked fine until today, when the user “system” started to replace the URLs with links to downloaded versions. I tried turning this off globally but to no avail. Also tried to configure our domain as an exception but this also did not work.

I understand the reasoning behind the feature but it seems that neither the global setting nor the exception work at the moment. Has anyone else had the same problem? Is there anything I may have misunderstood about how this works?

Cheers, Alex

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