I get where you are coming from: I’m on Satellite internet, and it is my only option where I live. Even Cell doesn’t work.
As others have said before, just turn off images in your browser options, or use an image blocker add-on in Firefox/palemoon.
My big gripe (Fortunately it is rare at FR) is when someone on a forum posts a huge photo directly out of the camera, without resizing and optimizing for the web. so not only does it waste bandwidth, but it throws the whole page off, and you have to scroll back and forth to read anything.
As long as image blocking can be tuned for animated images, can optionally load them (e.g. #30) and won’t download them anyway (and just not display them).