Giphy. It drives me absolutely batshit crazy. I wish image-search sites (looking at you, Google Image Search) wouldn't index images served by sites that make it so very hard to get the actual image. See also: Pinterest.

Half the time with google image search, when you visit the site to view the image it isn't even on the site at all!

I stumbled upon this userscript which adds the view image button back, seems to work so far https://gist.github.com/ner00/ec9ae47e202b8e99f19be44a5af6ba...

Why the hell do these newfang apps not have video controls? Why isn't there a switch to turn off audio by default?

I don't use ig,tiktok, snap but people around me do and its very annoying.

Audio on IG is off by default. it's just that the people around you like hearing the noises.

YouTube shorts has audio on by default.

Instagram has on by default unless you touch to mute it.

Facebook has audio on by default.

Don't know about tiktok. Its banned in India for past 3-4 years

I asked around.

yeah, the lack of video controls seems like an evil, perversely-incentivized design decision

This is why you sideload :)

i wrote a script that rips IG bookmarked images into a Google photo album because IG was the only place to find cool images. last time i checked it was still working. https://github.com/mcpengelly/instagram-saved-to-google-phot...

it is superb!! I love it!!

thanks for the kind words :)