John Lee said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
John Lee said:
Not all
people would care
to have to click a few times every time they visit a webpage just to
view its images.
This only applies to those pages where you choose to suppress image
downloads.
Then it might have some benefit, but you have to know what pages you
want to block beforehand.
Usually people have a pretty good idea, from experience, of what will
annoy them. For instance I would not dream of visiting guardian.co.uk (an
otherwise excellent website) without some way of blocking popups, and I
find many commercial websites unusable unless I can suppress animation of
the GIF images and automatic playing of the Flash ads. Because all of
these features, or any one of them, would render my browsing experience
extremely unpleasant, I go prepared. Sometimes it is even necessary to
turn off Javascript interpretation.
These activities and precautions are part and parcel of normal browser
control, making the browser show what *I* want to see, and nothing else,
in the form in which I want to see it. Not looking at images that I don't
want to see is only part of a larger process.