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Rflong7
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Hi, @SimGuruDrake 
Can we please have the option in our Settings to disable animated Gifs in both Signatures and posts. They get very annoying in both use and subject matter.
Please and Thank you for checking on it.
Can we please have the option in our Settings to disable animated Gifs in both Signatures and posts. They get very annoying in both use and subject matter.
Please and Thank you for checking on it.
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/819059/can-we-get-an-option-to-block-all-animated-pics#latest
It's a shame that this is still an unanswered issue. I still have problems with getting migraines from the gifs that some members like to post in their responses. Having the option in my settings to not see gifs in signatures has helped, but I would have liked this option for posts as well. I've had to put some members on ignore because of how often they use gifs in their posts. It's a shame, but I'd rather have that than the migraine. The browser plug-ins recommended on my thread didn't seem to work for me, or I may have installed them incorrectly. Something simple (like an option in my settings) would be my preference though.
@SimGuruDrake, can anything be done about this, please? I don't want gifs blocked for everyone automatically, I just want the option to do it myself under the settings. That way I can avoid the headache while not spoiling the fun for others.
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I use the strip images from signatures setting because in the past some of them have been truly annoying. As to their use in posts.......I get the feeling that sometimes people use them to "say" things that they wouldn't get away with if they used their words.
For those who really don't care about seeing signatures at all, there is the other tick box for "Hide signatures always".
Hope that helps. It seems as though that's the best they're going to come up with for the time being.
I rather not stripe them all, just option to remove the Gifs.
Personally I don't care for GIFs on any website, especially those used for ads on the sides or top of a page that move or flash, so you almost have to look at them.
To stop this globally I just went into my browsers and un-ticked the "play web animations" and while I can still watch news out-takes, YouTube, movies, etc, --Blissfully, GIFs don't move on any page I visit.
But that's just what works for me. Hopefully Guru Drake will see the tag and address this for you and others who feel the same way.
Also, I wonder if we could please have the ability to disable them, or do something with them in the activity feed. Not long ago, some users made posts with a lot of animated gifs in them - the posts were all positioned one after the other, and that caused my browser to lock up and freeze. People are just so inconsiderate, and to make matters worse they keeping bumping their posts all the time.
I keep reporting, but nothing ever seems to be done about it.
Normally I got to my friends pages to read them, but since there has been the problem with comments or posts not updating, I go to the feed to look now. I don't want to keep having to quit via task manager because people can't be bothered to think how their spam is affecting others.
Edit - Manually having to keep clicking to disable these gifs through ABP is time consuming and annoying. Having an option to just disable animated gifs altogether would be so much more helpful.
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With this option in I E un-checked, you can keep Signatures on, but not have to suffer through their occasionally obnoxious repetitions.
(For those who already know and do this, bear with me and skip on by: I post this for those who don't ususlly plum around with their browser settings.)
It is effective on all websites and blissfully zaps all those rotten little GIFs.
In the Internet Explorer menu bar, click on Tools and then Options. In the Internet Options window that opens, click on the Advanced tab, then scroll down about half way and find the option for Play animations in webpages. Uncheck the box next to this option and click the OK button. Close and restart the browser for the setting change to take effect.
Again, Chrome bites in this regard. They supposedly have an "extension" in their "store" but when I went to fetch it, I came up with an error page.
Could be the Adsters don't want people paralyzing their GIFS and Google may have been bought off. (today's little conspiracy dose for those so-inclined!!)
As to Firefox, can't say.. I have it but almost never use it.
I just believe that people could be a little more courteous in their use of massive pictures and flashing gifs.
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About courtesy and reining in one's use of GIFs, especially the loud and flashy ones-- I agree with you very much. But in the mean time, in case you haven't tried it, Firefox has an easily installed add-on that with the use of "CTRL + M" one can freeze those annoying little buggers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animated-gifs/
EDIT : As I said way above I have Firefox.. I just seldom use it although it's a nice looking browser.. I just installed it and tried the "CTRL + M" out. Works fabulous!
Freezes those benighted distractions in their tracks, and unlike Internet Explorer's "Play Animations in Webpages" tick-box, - Mozilla's add on is a free-running toggle. No need to get into the nuts and bolts of the thing. : If for some reason you wanna see cats dance around forwards and backwards --you hit the combo again and voila, to life they come.
So out of the three official browsers (I won't get into # 4 except, well, it rhymes with "4" and it's useful for an I T girl like me who's curious about the Dark Side of the Force and occasionally I leave my scruples at home)
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As I was saying-- Out of the three, Firefox' answer to GIFs is the best.
I agree that the more options the better forum experience, however, I find it already unfair to implement features and then take it away. While some do not care for signatures and/or animated GIFs, for me, it's another way of expression even if I'm the only one who can see it, that's fine. If EA takes away GIFs, then they might as well take away signatures, custom avatars, images/URLs and take away the insightful, like and awesome buttons too. Then what's there left to not like? Well, I suppose now it would be just boring for some since now no one could further express their individuality excluding words.
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