>>1499168
>Does anybody know why?
Mobile browsing. It's to help consume less data as many have small limits or slow connections

>>1499178
Was it always that way, i can't remember?

>>1499168
It depends on the screen resolution or device (if using mobile browser and site was coded that way anyway even if you have 4k phone screen). the reason is probably to save data or so to not make your device "slow" when opening/previewing very large images on the small screen.

it happens a lot on sites like news sites or media sites I usually had to resize my browser or get the URL of the image and then remove the trailing SQL codes or link parameters so it would take me to the largest video/image size of the asset files. so something like link.site/1234/image.jpg?size=mobile just remove the trailing stuff after the ".jpg" and if you go to that link directly the file will be of original size. sometimes the even smarter thing to do is replace the jpg with png this works with wallpaper or stock photo sites it will show the much higher quality image. this used to be doable on site like twitter which sometimes puts out the jpeg only even if users uploaded PNG but they changed it to do it dynamically. on sites like facebook it would have image_a124b452c43d_n.jpg n stands for normal I think, and changing it to _o.jpg makes it original size but that also changed they made it so it's impossible to get the original quality anymore.

>>1499180
4chan has been doing it the entire time I've been phoneposting
If you don't want it you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click "disable mobile view". But the desktop version doesn't work perfectly on a phone (maybe you could connect a mouse to a phone?)

however it's on them i guess
i mean if you browse /hr/ it's not like that so it's not everywhere

I'm using google chrome in landscape orientation and it works fine.

>>1499368
>landscape orientation
cause it turns into desktop the same way of when you disable mobile view

>>1499370
Well anon has his easy solution then.