Media file page not protected

..I forgot to add that in the post, I am using a standard gallery block and setting the link image to the media file. The same also happens with a single image that has the link set to the media file

Thanks- I was just going to ask this! Another use case is if you find the image via an image search.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tay+ho+mural+oakland&atb=v314-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi0.wp.com%2Foaklandmurals.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F04%2Ftay-ho-chopsticks.jpg%3Ffit%3D1000%252C1413%26ssl%3D1%26is-pending-load%3D1

The first picture, yellow with chopsticks, is hosted on my site. You can easily grab it from that search.

Hello, Tim

First of all, thank you for choosing our products. We really appreciate this.
Secondly,

After checking your issue

The thing you must know: There is no way to protect any image if you view it with its full URL (example: https://www.sitename.com/foldername/image.jpg) because it will be out of your WordPress codes include our plugin codes

So you should fix the problem by stop displaying a link to the full image over it

Just Edit the post or the page and remove the links over your images or you may find a (removing links) plugins that will do that for you in one click.

if you still want to view large photos when a user clicks on your images and also keep them protected we advise using simple lightbox plugin (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-lightbox) OR (Basic Protected Lightbox https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/basic-protected-lightbox/) with our plugin

you will have a magical mix

Thank you

Hi @adam1318
Thanks for you quick reply. I will give your suggestion a try.

Thanks

Tim