You might enjoy https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/load-reddit-i...
Of course, I sometimes end up with a zoom mess where the page is zoomed, and then pinch zoomed.
Remember when Google used to be cool and was basically just making simple tools that were on the web? I have not seen that philosophy of engineering come from Big Tech in many many years.
[1] https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/why-you-should-use-px-units-fo...
How does it know where to get the CSS or picture element from to manage that? Maybe it keeps it from the other page. Does this happen in all browsers? I don't think I've seen this in Firefox.
When you navigate to https://i.redd.it/dl34o62azctc1.jpeg, Chrome sends (I'm doing this on Chrome because I think I've made some hacks in Firefox to fix this)
GET https://i.redd.it/dl34o62azctc1.jpeg
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
and Reddit responds with a redirect to https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://i.redd.it/dl34o62az....But when the browser loads the same image from an <img src="..."> tag, Chrome sends
GET https://i.redd.it/dl34o62azctc1.jpeg
Accept: image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8
and Reddit responds with the actual image.