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multipleof4andClaude Opus 5.5 38f76a9e04 Feat: Fall back to Bing when Brave refuses, and serve donate.webp when Bing blocks too

Brave errors (e.g. its spending limit being hit) now fall back to Bing
like empty results do, with the error in a Brave Unavailable alert. If
Bing fails too (HTTP error or a page without results, which for Bing
means it's blocking us), a new papercraft donate.webp is served instead
of an AI image, and nothing is cached so the query works once either
search is back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-10-12 14:41:36 +00:00

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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2026

direct-img.link has no accounts and doesn't sell data. This page explains what is collected when you use it.

IP addresses

Your IP address is used to enforce rate limits.
For the daily search limit, it's stored only as a hash combined with the current date, along with a counter. These records are periodically deleted once they are older than about a day.
Cloudflare also uses your IP address for burst rate limiting and security.

Search queries and images

When a query isn't already cached, it's sent to Brave Search, and to Bing if Brave returns nothing or is unavailable. On free.direct-img.link, it's sent to Openverse and/or Wikimedia Commons instead. Searches and image downloads are made from our servers, so your IP address isn't shared with these search providers or the sites images come from.
Each query (with its i and src options) and the image it returned are cached for up to 90 days. Failed searches are remembered for 24 hours.
Cached images are shared: anyone requesting the same query and options gets the same image.

Operational alerts

Queries and IP addresses may be included in alerts sent to the maintainer through a push notification service (ntfy), used to monitor usage and abuse.

Analytics

We use GoatCounter, a privacy-focused analytics service that doesn't use cookies.

The homepage loads GoatCounter's script, which records the visit, the referring page, and your screen width.
Each image request is reported to GoatCounter from our servers, including the query, the referring page (for example, the site embedding the image), your user agent, and your IP address.
GoatCounter uses your IP address and user agent to work out your country, browser, and operating system, and to count unique visitors. It doesn't store the IP address or user agent itself.

If you sign up for updates on the homepage, your email address, the sign-up date, and your IP address are stored by our newsletter service (newsletter.planetrenox.com, also run on Cloudflare) and used only to email you about direct-img.link.
The sign-up form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to block bots.
The maintainer gets a push notification (ntfy) with your email address when you sign up or unsubscribe.
Every email has an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops all emails right away.

Hosting and third parties

The service runs on Cloudflare, which processes all requests under its own privacy policy.
The homepage embeds GitHub's Sponsor button, which is loaded from GitHub under GitHub's privacy statement.
The homepage loads Cloudflare Turnstile for the newsletter sign-up form.
direct-img.link doesn't set any cookies.

Changes

We may update this policy at any time. The date above shows the latest revision.

Contact

Privacy questions: contact@direct-img.link

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