So, weird request/suggestion based on the attached image, which is kinda funny in of itself but i'll get to that.
I remember people noticing that with a previous Lemmy update, sometimes links to certain content - from what I can see, specifically news website articles (maybe this is amp link related because it's clearly not every webpage) and some video hosts - seemed to "auto-expand" inline on the hexbear page, allowing people to read the article or play the video without leaving the hexbear post/opening a new tab. Seemed like a cool enough feature.
This morning, I go ahead and click through to comments on a post about Leavitt wanting to denaturalise Momdani or some shit, and I get the image attached. My work sysadmin has applied a block rule to Tankie Tube which I would generally find unsurprising (small video hoster, unvetted by them so easy to just block. they've done it before to smalltime video rehosters used on the soccer subreddit because they all get nuked regularly), except they've flagged it as porn.
I find this funny because of our strict 
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stance, but unfortunately i don't think it's prudent to request a review with my work IT department to vet the site, because i then have to explain that I'm spending some time shitposting on work hours.
However, it's now a catch-22 where either I explain that Tankie Tube isn't porno but reveal that I browse hexbear on company time and get in trouble/fired, or I accidentally click posts that would otherwise be interesting and get flagged for "attempting to view porno" and get fired. I trust that none of you are dumb enough to suggest that I simply do not browse hexbear while at work 
So, is there a way at user-level to disable this function? There's an "Auto Expand Media" checkbox under settings, but that instead auto-expands every single image on the frontpage/postlist and doesn't have anything to do with the inline expansion of content when viewing an individual post.
i'm mildly to moderately technical, but I read your post and said "yeah, that's a load of cool sounding words" lmao
second sentence is more my position though - i don't want to have to justify my shitposting time to my employer or attract any attention that would force me to explain my shitposting time
It sounds much cooler than it is. Cmder is a portable terminal emulator that handily has ssh installed, which lets you log in to a remote shell and also for some reason has a feature that lets you map ports on the local machine to ports on the remote machine (a proxy).The Firefox extension is just a proxy switcher from the addons site. It really just boils down to one command:
Then you have a SOCKS proxy at localhost:8080 to point Firefox at.
I will say that I literally explained what I was doing to supervisors and coworkers and never got in trouble but I’ve worked at some pretty lax employers.