I spent an evening on a fictitious web
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I spent an evening on a fictitious web
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Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#2No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#3I went to the website, clicked on the search bar, and was immediately stopped from proceeding unless I provided a Google login.
Why is that necessary? No idea, they don’t say.
Doesn’t seem like a “web” I’d want to partake in, with Google as a gatekeeper even if they’re not the authors of the content.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#4No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.
Thought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#5I went to the website, clicked on the search bar, and was immediately stopped from proceeding unless I provided a Google login. Why is that necessary? No idea, they don’t say. Doesn’t seem like a “web” I’d want to partake in, with Google as a gatekeeper even if they’re not the authors of the content.
They're just using Google for an easy user onboarding, nothing to get all up in arms about. Websim is trying to sell plans for more than 30 generations a day.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#6No more dead links, instead Chrome will instead hallucinate what that website should have looked like.
Thought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
Or – some day when this runs on-device – a "smart preload" feature from Google Chrome. On slow connections, hallucinate a wireframe of a heavy website until it loads.
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#8So the purpose of the website wasn't clear to you, you then figured it out, decided to write an article about it, but didn't explain to the reader what the website actually is?
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thought experiment: think of a potential usecase (perhaps offline) where some smart-aleck product manager thinks this might be useful.
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
Google Cache used to be so useful. But they've left that all to the Internet Archive now.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-...
Re: I spent an evening on a fictitious web
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Come to think of it, I'm kind of surprised that Google Chrome doesn't have a "this link is broken, would you like to see what we have cached for this url?" feature.
Or – some day when this runs on-device – a "smart preload" feature from Google Chrome. On slow connections, hallucinate a wireframe of a heavy website until it loads.
Resulting in web elements bouncing around and changing wholesale as the site loads? Hitting the wrong button as some UI element loads late is already a painful UX stubbed toe as it is.