How to avoid seeing images while browsing

Multiple ways to embed an image in a web page, the optimal approach to disabling images

Marian C.
5 min readNov 30, 2024

Modern news websites tend to dilute meaningful content with large worthless images. Infinite scrolling, random contents and image stuffing are prominent trends in the modern web design.

bing.com can exemplify many websites where images take most of the space but add no informational value and can be disturbing:

The same contents cleared of all images:

Basically faces and generic images dilute and pollute the headlines.

cnn.com is a less extreme example, it has no infinite scrolling but displays even bigger images:

The same content without the images:

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Marian C.
Marian C.

Written by Marian C.

Java, JavaScript and SQL developer. Interested in data collection and visualization.

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