Prevent fetching images instead of just blocking the loading?

[victorbmlabs]

I'm running a SeleniumBase program through a proxy. On my initial test I used about 4.7mb of bandwith (on a page with many images). After setting the block_images parameter onSB I could visually confirm images were not loading but I am still using the same amount of bandwith.

Is block_images strictly for not displaying images on the DOM?

[mdmintz]

This is essentially what block_images does:

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31581387/7058266

It blocks the images from being displayed in the DOM.
It doesn't change bandwidth.