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		tischler on Feb 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search res... But that gives you a url-encoded version of the image, not the actual URL of it, IIRC, which is sometimes annoying. Edit: It looks like they've changed it back to the actual URLs.

shostack on Feb 16, 2018 [–]

Yeah, that's what I thought too, but it does indeed look like they've changed it. The change is subtle, but results in not much changing for people that ultimately are just looking to grab a quick image for non-commercial purposes.

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