3 ms·
Not everyone is always in the mood for any kind of picture. The other day I was reading an article about some homeless people which mentioned some rather nasty
by arp242 4y ago
Not everyone is always in the mood for any kind of picture.
The other day I was reading an article about some homeless people which mentioned some rather nasty sounding diseases they were suffering from; I wanted to look up some more details on that, but since there's a good chance the top of the Wikipedia page has an untasteful image I didn't. Am I able to view some pictures? Sure. Is such a picture useful? Absolutely. I just wasn't in the mood at that moment.
Sometimes I wish Wikipedia had some better controls for this kind of stuff: no censorship, just opt-in blur out some of this stuff until you click on it, like reddit.
In general I think giving people control over these kind of things is a good thing.
- HPsquared 4y agoIn your browser: open site settings for Wikipedia, and disable images. Can also disable things like JavaScript, sounds, location services, etc.
- arp242 4y agoI am aware you can do that. Obviously many images on Wikipedia are completely fine and useful I don't want to disable all images, and I'm not going to muck about with a bunch of browser settings every time I want to open Wikipedia, nor do I want to continuously try to guess what a page may or may not contain (which will undoubtable be wrong at least in some occasions). This is a non-solution.