Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.
Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11
BE: 0.19.0-rc.10
Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).
If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.
Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?
I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.
Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.