I have firefox configured to show no images because I’m on a limited connection. I think the only thing I’ve changed w.r.t. my usage habits recently is to start using Lemmy again. I’m chewing through bandwidth credit quite fast, like ¼—⅓gb in a day. Does it seem possible that Lemmy would cause that even when images are disabled in firefox? I might have to lay off lemmy a few days and see how it goes.
BTW, I only just now disabled “show avatars” in the Lemmy settings, but I don’t expect that to make any difference if my browser was already configured not to show images.
if it’s showing that icon then it’s likely blocking the request to load the image fine. I believe the dev tools should also show you how much data was transferred. Looking at loading the frontpage of lemmy it seems that it uses about 80kb of data.
Ah, well if the front page is 80kb that might explain it. So apparently there’s just some really heavy text especially if each subsequent page is anywhere near 80kb.