I often uploaded images to GitHub issues and used their URLs in markdown files (such as README.md
).
This method was convenient since it didn’t require adding the images to the repository, and each image had a unique URL.
However, in (probably) March 2025, GitHub changed their policy so that accessing images uploaded to issues now requires cookie-based authentication.
This applies even to images uploaded to issues in public repositories.
As a result, the benefit of 'anyone who knows the URL can access the image' has been lost.