does anyone know if theres any way to stop tumblr gifs from saving as webp files? im sick of having to open up every gif in a new tab and changing the url just to save them lol
Kind of, yes. Only on desktop though. I use Tampermonkey on chrome and this extension:
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/Nilesy/Tumblr_GIFV_to_GIF
It’s ‘Tumblr GIFV to GIF’. For some reason most browsers are transitioning to this webp baloney, idk why, but this will automatically convert the now default gifv img urls into gif urls. Then you can save gifs again without having to manually change the image url or open them into new tabs, etc.
However I noticed this new problem that some images will open into a new screen that links tumblr hashtags, and will only display a gifv image on a black background. I think that’s a new thing tumblr is doing. Ugh. So if you get a screen like that, open the image into a new tab a second time and check that the url is ‘gif’ and not ‘gifv’. [edit, ok sometimes that odd black screen doesn’t appear? well, I removed that link, sorry for the confusion!]
Or! You can click on the image to display it in lightbox mode, right click and open it into a new tab. I think that should make it become a gif extension.
If you’re on mobile, I’m sorry but I don’t have a solution for that beyond open it in a mobile browser and change the url manually? Anyways, I hope this is useful for you!
THANK YOU!!!
