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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The reason that they make it difficult is to try to stop people from downloading/saving the images. Obviously it’s impossible to stop a knowledgeable and determined person. But it does hamper the layperson and that makes it worth the effort.
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