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How to show "From the web" previews?

To those more knowledgeable then I, One thing that has always bothered me is that depending on what you search into the search bar for "Art Library", then you scroll down to "From the web", often previews of images simply will not appear. You can still drag and drop these images into your game, but you don't have any idea what they are until after they manifest onto the game itself. Are there any steps I can take to ensure previews appear? I've always had this issue no matter the browser or operating system, but I am currently using Firefox for Linux (SteamDeck) to host my games. In the past I used Google Chrome on Windows and got the same issue. I appreciate any help from people out there on these forums. From a longtime Roll20 user who just lived with this issue and never thought to ask how to resolve it until now.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Hi Justin B.,  The "From the Web" section is from an archived google search well over a decade old now. It is not a live search (Google shut it down long ago).  Many of the links are dead.  Frankly, the entire thing should be removed. 
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0I'll echo what Gauss posted. When I created my first game on Roll20 (in 2021) I used several images that I found using "From the Web",  just to later find all the those items had become "invisible" because they had been purged from that ancient archive (It's a Google archive, not under the control of Roll20). A that time, "invisible" images were a real pain to repair. There are thousands of free images that can be found on the web with the search engine of your choice, downloaded to your PC, then uploaded to your Art library. I agree that the "From the Web" section of the Art Library should be removed.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Thirded. It was nice that Roll20 did what they could when Google's API terms  changed, but in hindsight, it would have been better to rip the band-aid off then.
I created a suggestion for it to be removed or replaced. Vote early, vote often  (*). (*) John Van Buren.  Attorney General of New York 1845 to 1847
Thank you all for this information. I don't know how to do it, but if there is a way to lock this forum, it ought to be locked and marked solved.