Stop animated GIFs in Safari

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How do you pronounce GIF? I would claim that it's pronounced like "Jeff", but that's not important. What if you don't want to pronounce or indeed see animated GIFs? There's a preference "Reduce motion" in macOS System Preferences, Accessibility, Display, but for some reason this preference doesn't apply to animated GIFs. Fortunately, there's a workaround if you prefer not to display GIFs in Safari: use a style sheet. If you open Safari's Preferences window to the Advanced tab, you can set your own .css file as the style sheet. Here's some sample CSS that should hide GIFs on web pages.
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