Images here are protected from direct downloads. This is made for your own safety - you do not wish your private or for-friens-only pics be linked from some outside forums if your "friends" decide to put them there. Also, you do not want your private pics seen by other members of this site, who you did not intend to show them to.

This protection is bult so that there should be no difference for the browsers between plain images and protected - they send correct headers, with ETags and other stuff so that they can be correctly cashed, resumed in case of broken download, saved with a correct name, etc. But, regretably, some browsers, when set to high security, do not want to work with them, because those protected images ask for cookies.

Honestly, it would be much simplier for me to take that protection off at all and it would be definitelly much less load for the server, but then your private and for-friends-only images could be seen by anybody.

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Bottom line is - if your browser does not show pics, try to lower the security settings.