diff --git a/odoo-community-developers/index.html b/odoo-community-developers/index.html
index 14f4e07..3f31d2c 100644
--- a/odoo-community-developers/index.html
+++ b/odoo-community-developers/index.html
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@
     <section class="section-dark" id="directory">
       <div class="container">
         <h2 class="section-title">Freelancers available</h2>
-        <p class="dir-lede">Listings are for freelancers who work on their own — that is the declaration we ask each of them for, and we do not verify it. Where a card shows a number of projects, that is a number we recorded — not a rating, a score or an endorsement. A card shows a photo only where the freelancer gave us a link to one; otherwise it shows their initials. We make no claim about a freelancer beyond what they wrote and what we can count ourselves.</p>
+        <p class="dir-lede">Listings are for freelancers who work on their own — that is the declaration we ask each of them for, and we do not verify it. Where a card shows a number of projects, that is a number we recorded — not a rating, a score or an endorsement. A card shows a photo whether the freelancer gave us a link to one or uploaded an image; otherwise it shows their initials. We make no claim about a freelancer beyond what they wrote and what we can count ourselves.</p>
 
         <!-- Rendered at build time from our freelancer webhook (one call, no CRM),
              so the list works with JavaScript disabled. The filter controls below are
@@ -1741,6 +1741,15 @@
         return v.indexOf("http://") === 0 || v.indexOf("https://") === 0 || v.indexOf("/") === 0;
       }
 
+      /* A card renders a photo only for an allowlisted scheme: an https URL or an inline
+         data:image/ URI. Anything else — empty, junk like "gineoirn", another scheme —
+         falls back to the monogram. The freelancer controls this field, so it never
+         reaches src unchecked. (Separate from isLink(), which the *link* renderer also
+         uses and which accepts http:// and relative paths.) */
+      function isImageSrc(v) {
+        return v.indexOf("https://") === 0 || v.indexOf("data:image/") === 0;
+      }
+
       function liveEl(tag, cls, text) {
         var node = document.createElement(tag);
         if (cls) node.className = cls;
@@ -1786,8 +1795,8 @@
 
         var photo = String(rec.Image || "").trim();
         var avatar;
-        if (isLink(photo)) {
-          avatar = liveEl("img", "dev-photo"); // a real URL only — never a base64 blob
+        if (isImageSrc(photo)) {
+          avatar = liveEl("img", "dev-photo"); // https URL or data:image/ URI only
           avatar.src = photo;
           avatar.alt = "";
           avatar.width = 72;