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I just turned off image loading by default and would right click and select load image. Generally pages loaded great.

• Isamu 4y ago
  Ha, me too, I turned off images back then and it made everything snappy and very pleasant. I just wanted the text, the information. It’s weird though- people want all the nonsense. More and more that is the primary use of the web.
• Firmwarrior 4y ago
  you guys should try and dig up some old home movies of using the computer back in the 90s Nowadays if something isn't a bloated pile of trash, it'll literally load up in a few dozen milliseconds or less. Back then, even a pretty lightweight text-only site would take seconds to load and render (and of course, bloated crap sites back then took upwards of a minute to load if you left images on)
• Cyberdog 4y ago
  This was a killer feature in the iCab browser! I loved that ambitious little browser and used it for many years, and its ability to easily toggle image loading was one of the reasons.
• robonerd 4y ago
  I browse that way today. Images, CSS and javascript disabled by default and whitelisted on a case-by-case basis with uMatrix. 90% of the time this makes websites better and I don't end up whitelisting anything. Most of the images paired with articles online are irrelevant stock photos that are only added to articles because the illiterate half of the population will close the page immediately if there isn't a picture to look at.