Not rendering images anymore in Edit or Read mode

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What I’m trying to do

I’m having a really hard time with getting images to render that are external links. Even public ones.

What I’ve tried:

I’ve deleted all my custom CSS and custom JS to see if I somehow created a bug, and it’s just not working. I also disabled all the Community Ppps that may access or modify html, css, js. (CustomJS, Dataview, Image Captions, Image Upload Toolkit, JS Engine, RunJS)

I’ve tried all these variants:

![Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/h50ku2dkjyje2q0qd5905/2025-02-21-01.17.07_Data-Augmenter_MainContainerUI.gif?rlkey=fogfxpdr9m1clomt6hn22d5gn&st=2x3xxpbm&dl=0)

![250](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711959/number-go-up-by-zeke-faux/)

<img src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711959/number-go-up-by-zeke-faux/" alt="Here is my alt">

These lines are rendering here the same way they do inside Obsidian. If you see this post it’s just a random little image icon that suggests there should be an image, but there is no image rendered.

Dropbox

250

Here is my alt

Any external image or gif I try to reference does not render in either Edit or Read mode.

Is there a possible reason this is happening? Should I delete and reinstall the Obsidian app? What to do…

Update, happening on my other vaults as well.

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For the book links you’re linking to the web page for a book, not an image. The image link for that books is ![250](https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593443835). You can get the link to the image by right clicking on the image and selecting “Copy image address”.

It’s likely that the dropbox link is also incorrect.

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I figured that book image out. But the dropbox link is correct. Is there some kind of security issue?

Is there a recommended third party image and gif host you recommend for obsidian?

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My brief research leads me to believe that Dropbox has disabled the ability to publicly embed images in the past 5-10 years.

I can’t in good faith recommend an alternative as I don’t host images on a third party, I keep them all in Obsidian.

Best of luck!

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