Gecko: Media Blocker & Data Saver

Tracking since Apr 19, 2026.

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• May 8, 2026
  name

  Gecko: Media & Heavy Asset Blocker

  Gecko: Media Blocker & Data Saver

• Apr 24, 2026
  description

  Gecko disables images, videos, and heavy assets to speed up your browsing and save bandwidth.
  You can select what you'd like to disable with toggles to ignore globally, per-domain, or per-feature.
  
  Features:
  - Prevent loading images, videos, and heavy assets
  - Per-feature toggle 
  - Per-domain toggle 
  - Global toggle
  - Lightweight
  - Opensource
  - Secure
  - No user data collection of any kind
  - Visual icon change to reflect ON/OFF status
  
  Toggles:
  - Block Bloat JS
  - Block fonts
  - Block heavy assets (>750 KB)
  - Block unoptimized images
  - Block optimized images
  - Block videos/media streams
  - Cache loaded media
  - Allow tiny media
  
  Perfect for:
  - Low-bandwidth browsing
  - Faster page loads
  - Privacy-focused users
  - Text-heavy workflows
  - Mobile data saving

  Gecko disables images, videos, fonts, and other wasteful assets to speed up browsing and save bandwidth.
  You can decide what to block with simple toggles for global control, per-domain ignore, and per-feature behavior.
  
  Features:
  - Prevent loading images, videos, fonts, and misc files
  - Global toggle
  - Per-domain ignore toggle
  - Per-feature toggles
  - Site-specific blocking for websites like Google
  - Manual click-to-load for blocked images
  - Preserve media silhouettes to keep layouts stable
  - Allow tiny media when useful
  - Cache loaded media to reduce pointless re-downloads
  - Blocked request log grouped by website and category
  - Visual icon change to reflect ON/OFF status
  - Does not interact with or disrupt adblockers
  - Lightweight
  - Open source
  - Secure
  - No user data collection of any kind
  
  Toggles:
  - Block Bloat JS
  - Block fonts
  - Block misc files
  - Block unoptimized images
  - Block optimized images
  - Block videos/media streams
  - Cache loaded media
  - Allow tiny media
  - Preserve media silhouettes
  - Site-specific blocking
  
  Built-in safety:
  - Does not intentionally interfere with Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, SmartCaptcha, or similar verification flows
  - Does not interact with or disrupt adblockers
  - Does not cause infinite loops or crashes in websites.
  
  Perfect for:
  - Low-bandwidth browsing
  - Faster page loads
  - Text-heavy workflows
  - Mobile data saving
  - People who want modern websites to stop wasting traffic
  
  More websites will be added to the site-specific handling list over time.

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