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can you imagine if every site that linked to yours had a bar at the top of your page that said "back to facebook" or "back to wikipedia"? mobile web users know
by elsewhen 10y ago
can you imagine if every site that linked to yours had a bar at the top of your page that said "back to facebook" or "back to wikipedia"? mobile web users know how to use the back button but google is taking up your screen real-estate to drive traffic back to google.
this reminds me of sites in the early web that used to link out to sites and frame them with a banner at the top. websites countered this with frame-breaker scripts -- but publishers really shouldn't have to do that.
- fenomas 10y agoHugely agree - this feels like a dark pattern callback to one of the early web's uglier constructs. I mean - running a "we'll host your page for you in exchange for injecting a toolbar" service isn't necessarily an evil thing to do. But there's no reason to opt people into it just because they're tying to perform well on mobile.
- yoz-y 10y agoI suspect the toolbar is there to clearly identify the origin URL. As you can see, safari gives you no hint that this page is not actually google: https://imgur.com/a/2BtMX https://imgur.com/a/2BtMX As for the X button, I suppose google wishes people to use google search result like a news reader. I agree that it is redundant with the back button but the interaction does seem faster (I suspect that the page is actually loaded in an iframe on top of the results page)
- Tepix 10y agoThey could just use a better domain name such as googlecached.com
- buro9 10y ago> can you imagine if every site that linked to yours had a bar at the top of your page that said "back to facebook" or "back to wikipedia"? I saw a site do this yesterday. It was so noticeable because I only permit same-origin JavaScript and the whole site broke (most actually work). Then I realised there is an intermediary providing this service: http://linkis.com/ http://linkis.com/ It is the worst of all things.
- raverbashing 10y agoLinkis is twitter cancer http://www.adrianjock.com/remove-linkis-frames-twitter/ http://www.adrianjock.com/remove-linkis-frames-twitter/ You can also look at the source from an linkis infected link to find the original url
- gondo 10y agoyou can detect if your page is running inside iframe and if so, make the browser to load only your page, to get rid of services such as linkis.com
- Tepix 10y agobut does this work with AMP pages that restrict the javascript?
- buro9 10y agoAMP is "HTML with some restrictions". Speaks nothing of HTTP (otherwise they could've done the right thing and added a "text/html;amp=1" content-type). In theory this should still work: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Frame-Options https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-... But I doubt that Google's AMP cache will respect existing headers (the very nature of the cache stuff means that they won't, but what they will do to non-cache headers on an item is undefined AFAIK and so they will probably just strip them).
- magicalist 10y agoa quick look at an amp page (from google's cache) shows it's being served with x-frame-options:SAMEORIGIN, so looks like the linkis thing won't work with them.
- gondo 10y agoparent comment mentioned service such as http://linkis.com/ http://linkis.com/ what i was reacting to. i doub't that you can use linkis.com with AMP
- bartl 10y agoThat sounds a lot like the trick that Digg used to pull... People didn't like it one bit. It might well have been the final nail in their coffin.