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I always block images by default on new sites. If I care enough, I'll reload with images.

I don't find them super distracting, but I do miss the days when you could hit the ESC key and stop the animation loop.

That ability seems to have disappeared from browsers sometime between when the spinning skulls and under-construction gifs stopped being popular and these 12-frame silent movies appeared.

I'm still using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/?sr... although it's not multiprocess-compat, which is a shame.

I can't remember if the FF webextension apocalypse will allow anything similar in future.

Reader view works, but I agree that it’s a terrible way to structure an article anyway.