Why is it so frakking hard to disable animation in web browsers?

[codinghorror]

Another topic on this? I think that makes three.

Animated gifs?

Unfortunately, most web-browsers make it needlessly difficult to disable the infernal phoning things. I lost the settings I’d used while trying to diagnose some problems. Since they inflict a lot of pain, and add only pain to the discussions, I suggest that no one use the accursed phoning things here.

Refusing all GIFs is not a bad idea, most websites use PNG for lossless compression of stuff these days. If you refuse all GIFs you might be OK.