the number chances is not the problem, it's their outcome ;)

I tried 5 random things and every single one was a dead link. Taxpayer money well spent here

Where and what exactly?

I entered "dog" as search term and each and every item I clicked on, that had a Download option, worked fantastically well: https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?page=1&view=grid&query=do...

Taxpayer money well spent indeed!

Still very low resolution though :/

Which one? I got a gigapixel image of a nice artwork as a TIFF with little effort.

The image in the parent we were commenting on, and many others I searched for as well. I couldn't find any interface for identifying which resources on the remote sites were of reasonably high resolution that would be useful, and which were not.

Spending 6 millions EUR per year to get an index of blurry pictures in ElasticSearch (that they just crawled from somewhere). Well, it's only here for 15 years... so make the calculation.

You are clearly misrepresentating the value here. They also put a watermark on each image. /s

In all fairness, they don't all have watermarks. I don't know why. Perhaps they collected images from a variety of sources before downscaling and those sources included watermarks. I kind of wish that sort of thing had been part of the QA process though. Decent resolution and clean images would make this so much more valuable.