[8note]

Google's making it harder for me to share photos nowadays. Instead of just sending the picture, it sends a link to a website with the photo

[blacklight]

Install SolidExplorer or similar, share the photo, select SolidExplorer (or any other file explorer) and it's downloaded. From there you can share it anywhere else. It's one more step in the middle though - and it's the reason why I have migrated all of my photos away from Google and to a RPi4 with NextCloud and 7 TB hd.