You can at any time, even after accepting them, hide them at the badge site. As for slowing it down, I don't think it actually causes the rest of the app to load slower, even if a few badges load particularly slowly; the individual images for the badges are hosted on a specific relay. And sometimes the relay that happened to accept that badge image is now super slow.
Badges.page is the site url.
Nice, thanks. Good to know they're not forced. Not that I'm in any danger of getting one;)
Oooo yeah, didn't even think of that. Imagine using an obscene image as the image for a badge and sending to a few hundred people. And they are all stuck with some messed up porn in their profile.
Actually I think someone tried this, because Vitor (Amethyst dev) made a post saying 'yes, I can flag and report badges too, fyi.'
There's that too lol. I personally would still like to toggle off to even seeing them on profiles, just as an aesthetic choice lol
