Whatsapp Web - sending images results in a corrupted image file

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Hey, I tried to look around for this issue and couldn't find anything on it.

When I try to upload and image and send it with whatsapp web it results in a corrupted image file. Screenshot_20201128_114228 .

I have uploaded an image explaining the situation here, hope it wont get messy.

BTW, I have a nvidia GTX970, had a bit of an issue installing garuda dr4gonized on it, I removed the card and installed with free-drivers. Then installed the nvidia drivers with pacman 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-settings'. Now to boot into the OS I need to change GRUB from linux-zen kernel to linux kernel. Booting into linux-zen gets stuck on black screen.

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Which browser did you try whatsapp web

We make privacy enhancing tweaks on firefox
Some shoddy things dont work

As for nvidia drivers you can install nvidia-dkms do it works on linux-zen kernel

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Okay replying to myself here, moments after posting.
So on the address bar there is an image icon asking to allow whatsapp to save image data - and a privacy issue with that.
After enabling that, I was able to sent images through whatsapp web.

Screenshot_20201128_114853

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Thanks! I will try to install dkms now, do I need to remove nvidia and nvidia settings beforehand?