Many websites, reddit included, make it difficult or possibly impossible to simply view an image, by itself, without the accompanying website around it, even when you click “open image in new tab”. How does this work, and is it possible to force the browser to just show the image?
edit: yes I know *why* websites do it, it’s because they’re jerks and don’t want it embedded. the question is more about why web browsers just go along with it. if I tell my web browser to display an image, I obviously don’t want it to display an entire website, and that shouldn’t be something the website can control.
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I think what you’re seeing is .webp images. They are a new format made by Google that works differently. For one, the quality of the image depends on what your browser needs it to be, so not everyone is getting the exact image. It’s hard to view because it works more like an animated .gif.
Often when you see one of those short videos that repeat and have no controls, those are actually these same files. In both cases, something has to decide what it is before it can decide what to do with it.
Not sure what browser you’re using, but I have no trouble opening the image in a new tab on chrome, and I use Irfanview to view them, not sure what other image software works with it, I’m assuming most.
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