I'd like to share a tiny change that has considerably improved my browsing experience. I've recently reflected on the negative impact most web images have on my daily quality of life. Even with adblockers enabled, users are subjected to all sorts of attention-grabbing or shocking imagery. Think about the sheer amount of visual stimuli you're exposing yourself in only one hour. Of course, most of this content is designed to hijack your emotions in some way. I had my last straw when I was scrolling through a safe-for-work page on movies and I caught a glipmse of a gruesome still from a horror flick. It might sound like a minor nuisance but it soured my whole day. That's when I decided to block all images on the browser by default. If I want to view any specific page I have to explicitly give it my permission by putting it on the browser whitelist.<p>It squares nicely with my other blockers (e.g. all the suggestions/recommended videos from YouTube and the sidebar from most websites) to convey a nicer, smoother browsing experience. I feel silly for never using this feature until now.
Which method do you use to do this?<p>I use Wizmage Image Hider -- that works surprisingly well for the vast majority of images, and it does a great job of keeping content aligned so that it doesn't screw things up too badly. Only very rarely does Javascript nefariousness let an image slip through it -- overall it's a fantastic Chrome extension.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wizmage-image-hider/ifoggbfaoakkojipahnplnbfnhhhnmlp" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wizmage-image-hide...</a><p>I'm curious to hear what method you use?
An alternative (perhaps less drastic) is what I do: dim all the images. I have my own JavaScript that runs on every page dimming all the images (including the image that videos show before you press play). I originally wanted to introduce functionality that allowed me to un-dim an image if I really wanted to look closely, but I've found that this never happens. I use the style attribute. There is a brightness filter.<p>Like OP says, it improves my browsing experience. I'm typically here for the text.