diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/editor/image_processing.js b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/editor/image_processing.js
index d22552f4407..1308c23b0e0 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/editor/image_processing.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/editor/image_processing.js
@@ -488,7 +488,13 @@ export async function loadImageInfo(img, rpc, attachmentSrc = '') {
     // If src was an absolute "external" URL, we consider unlikely that its
     // relative part matches something from the DB and even if it does, nothing
     // bad happens, besides using this random image as the original when using
-    // the options, instead of having no option.
+    // the options, instead of having no option. Note that we do not want to
+    // check if the image is local or not here as a previous bug converted some
+    // local (relative src) images to absolute URL... and that before users had
+    // setup their website domain. That means they can have an absolute URL that
+    // looks like "https://mycompany.odoo.com/web/image/123" that leads to a
+    // "local" image even if the domain name is now "mycompany.be".
+    //
     // The "redirect" check is for when it is a redirect image attachment due to
     // an external URL upload.
     if (original && original.image_src && !/\/web\/image\/\d+-redirect\//.test(original.image_src)) {