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 truth is – it’s not difficult at all. Early 2000s pages often did just that. But then the question arose – why would websites choose to do this?
They would be wasting traffic on displaying an image, you would leave the site without links to go back / other recommended content and there would be no revenue in advertisement.
So yes, “open image in new tab” is the best you’ve got, and some websites make it explicitly difficult to use that function as well. That’s on purpose.
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