Photo posts with no download links

[andrethb]

Hello everyone, long time/first time. I have a question about this site (and other related sites) that has bugged me for some time. I searched to see if this has already been addressed, but I didn't find anything, so I apologize in advance is this is a duplicate question.

In any event, there are lots of posts and even whole sections on this site that contain sets of photos. Typically, there are previews or thumbnails of the photos and one can reach the original photos by clicking through several times. For many of these posts, there are no links to downloaders like k2s or rapidgator).

When people post these sets, what is the expectation as to how people will view them? It would be nice if there were some easy way to download these photos as a set, but ever since php and related website construction techniques took over 10 or 15 years ago, none of the bulk download tools (i.e., downthemall) really work anymore. So how do people look at these sets? Do they keep pages of links so that they can view their favorite sets in the original posts on this site? Are there bulk download tools that people use that work with sites like this one? I appreciate any insight that anyone can give me.