Here is a quick fix: Stop downloading images that are less than 0.1 KB in size. Most of them are beacons (AKA clear gifs, or 1x1 pixel images) used for tracking purposes.
All search engines now have web robots that download not only web pages (text) but also images, in order to create image directories. However, for search engines, it is a waste of bandwidth to download billions of beacons per d…