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Display Only Images On Image Hosting Sites

Many webmasters and Internet users host images on so called image hosting websites that allow them to store the images. This process is helpful for users who do not have their personal storage space on the Internet and webmasters who want to save bandwidth by hosting the images remotely. Image hosting sites have received a bad reputation lately because of the amount of advertisement that they display on their websites.

Developers have found ways to reduce the number of those elements on the image hosting sites. Add-ons like Adblock Plus or NoScript reduce the clutter on those websites so that it is easier to access the images on those websites.

Show Just Image is a userscript that supports almost 100 different image hosts among them popular sites like Flickr, Fapomatic and Photobucket.

The script redirects image requests on supported image hosting sites from their standard pages to the actual address of the image so that the image gets loaded in the web browser without the surrounding page.

Flickr images will for instance be automatically displayed in their largest size in the web browser. The script seems to handle image requests on all supported image hosts the same way.

The script redirects the initial request from the original page after it has been loaded so that the full size image is loaded and displayed in the web browser.

The script is fully compatible with the Firefox web browser. The Greasemonkey add-on needs to be installed. It might also be compatible with other web browsers but this has not been tested.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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Responses so far:

  1. It’s a very useful userscript!

  2. Isolino says:

    Very helpful, thanks.

  3. vangel says:

    nice knowing about this script. THough I feel it maybe more of an XSS thing so such scripts may fail. I know sites like flickr have API so if the script is suing that then its safe.

    Although many image hosts sites like http://3ezy.net already display full size image without popups and popunders in a clean full screen view.

  4. Marcelo Calcaterra says:

    I use www.picturetogo.com for upload my images. Is a free image hosting.

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