Nostr clients fetch everything from relays and then processes your settings.
We dont know for sure the state of the images. Need a dev to chime in
I blocked it with AdGuard so it never downloads to my network
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nostr:npub1x0r5gflnk2mn6h3c70nvnywpy2j46gzqwg6k7uw6fxswyz0md9qqnhshtn nostr:npub1nqx3lfjxpkqhck3kgrdtkhncvffe94l7qrep6ftw49nphnmw9szqvh3quf Gossip did not have this problem, it only displayed links but did not fetch them.