Argh! Y U do dis? Brb, fixing Saidit because somebody had to find an edge-case in the code. Never mind; I don't understand the code enough. In the meantime, if you want the pictures to come up directly here, move the f=1 to the beginning of the query string, so it reads /iu/?f=1&u=http……….jpg tack the image's file extension just before the ?, like https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2F, which also works client-side; that way, the thumbnail machine and the preview machine will know that it's meant to be an image. (Note that the expando machine uses different rules, and is easier to add new features to.)

Expando here, using a dirty, dirty hack that is apparently the only way to get it to function server-side, too: