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Is anyone aware of any site/service which would allow me to display a picture for only 10-20 seconds after link has been clicked, and then refreshes the page and deletes the page.

I know of sites which allow one time links, but I don't want the picture to stay in the browser after link is clicked.
 Its like one time display for a few seconds,and tada auto refresh and he can't see the image ever again.

snapchat?

what about uploading the image on website that allow it to show one time only and then create a html/php page and add the picture using an iframe or image link and add the auto refresh function with interval of 10-15 second

host that page on free hosting site
when a user visit your page then he will see that image and within 10-15 sec the page will refresh automatically and when it try to get the picture from image hosting site then it won't allow as it will have a setting on 1 time view only so user will not able to see that picture again

If you consider this for some sort of security or privacy, forget it. There is no way you can stop the user from permanently keeping the picture.

Someone who knows the web can analyze the html and get&save the picture via script.
Someone who knows a bit less can disable Javascript and stop the refresh.
All others just take a screenshot.

^This, there's always a workaround.  And anyone can take a screen-shot.
What's this about? If you're concerned about someone copying your  Art-work or something like that, watermark and publish only smaller sizes for preview purpose only.

Well its just for a friend, who will be looking at the picture and it will refresh and go away. He wouldn't expect it to refresh , and he doesn't really have much coding skills. So not worried about that

Maybe you can use a site which shows the link content for only a few hours. And have it disappear after a minute ?

You may use temporary image storage service which will delete image after certain time or you can hire coder or follow guides avaliable online to make it work using jQuery

You can do easily a page yourself in a blog or free hosting:

You put a javascript in the page that will count the seconds you need.
You create a cookie that will tell to not show the image anymore.

At page load up you check the cookie.
* If the cookie is not there, you show the image and start the counter.
*** If the counter ended you create the cookie and hide the image (or just navigate away)
* If the cookie was there at load-up you don't show the image (maybe navigate away).


Of course with a second browser, with another computer so on, this trick will not work.
But also you know that in those seconds a right click / save is possible ruining all this.

it can be done, but it is useless.

User can print screen or tape the screen.

How would you or anyone block it?

what if the browser do not accepts cookies?

It's impossible to implement this safely on a website. The user can just disable JS, take a screen shot, save the image or something else depending on the used method.

A mobile app would make much more sense. Try using snapchat as already suggested or timed encrypted messages on Telegram.

Or you can implement your own app. It wouldn't be too difficult, at least on Android which I know.

Really, there is no way to fully prevent them from keeping the photo. The user just has to take a screenshot...

I don't really expect them to know the page will refresh.