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Unsplash API compliance

Changed

  • Unsplash picks are now hotlinked, not re-hosted. Unsplash's API terms require hotlinking the image URLs they return (copying the file to our own Storage breaks their view/download tracking and isn't allowed), so a picked Unsplash photo now points the card straight at images.unsplash.com and registers the use via the download endpoint. The pick route validates the URL is a genuine Unsplash CDN host before hotlinking. Pexels, Pixabay, and Openverse still download + host in the cards bucket, which their terms permit. Attribution (photographer → profile, "on Unsplash" → photo page, both with UTM) was already in place and is unchanged.