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Allowing arbitrary image links causes security warnings
This question's page shows up as not secure on my computer.
I believe it is due to this answer. When I look in the console, it warns that the images on it were loaded insecurely (since the image link is http instead of https).
I can understand if you don't want to host all the images yourselves (hosting costs money), but having unsecure pages doesn't really inspire confidence.
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Codidact is set up for image hosting. It doesn't cost much at the current level of usage. However, if a user puts in a link we don't currently prevent that (may or may not be advisable to allow 3rd-party image hosting, that is a separate discussion) and that combines with, in this case, the 3rd-party image hosting not having a valid certificate and, therefore, the link is http: and can't be changed to https: without causing errors for everyone.
Markdown, for better or worse, lets people who know how to use it insert image links like these. Not sure of the solution - but the problem is not "don't want to host all the images yourselves".
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