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warrenm on June 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome is faster in M91

...except a huge portion of the web is image-based

...so turning that off would be pretty much pointless on most sites

gpvos on June 7, 2021 [–]

Yes. So, remember when that was not the case?

warrenm on June 8, 2021 | [–]

I do

But that's irrelevant

Not loading images will nix >99% of what people actually use the web for

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