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		untog on May 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video You used to be able to press the escape button to stop GIFs on the page. It's not unchanged for 30 years.

silversconfused on May 10, 2019 [–]

Browsers have changed, a lot, in sad and unfortunate ways like you mention here, but the gif format is pretty stable.

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