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URLs are useless for normal people, normal people don't know what URLs are. They don't have the time for learning what it means. If they want to access a websit
by zimbatm 8y ago
URLs are useless for normal people, normal people don't know what URLs are. They don't have the time for learning what it means. If they want to access a website they will Google for it and click on the first result and don't look at the address bar. As a consequence of that they are easy phishing targets, just setup a domain that looks more or less legit and you're good.
Unfortunately the easy solution to that seems to be more walled gardens. I'm pretty sure we'll start seeing Google-certified websites. Registering your website with the Google Search Console will start to become mandatory to appear in the top results. Or implement AMP.
So I'm with you but I think it's important to understand that URLs are broken for most people. When you see a perfectly legible piece of text, their brain is automatically blurring it like some piece of flesh in a Japanese Hentai.
- krapp 8y ago>URLs are useless for normal people, normal people don't know what URLs are. This is a truism, but I'm not certain it's true. Is there actual data to back this up? What definition of "normal" is being used here.. the average person using the internet, or non-technically trained people? The web has been around for decades now, and everyone including my nearly 70 year old mother uses it, and URLs have been pretty ubiquitous for a long time. Not knowing what a URL is seems about as likely as not knowing what a TV channel is, or that they have a bank account number. It seems more likely to me that normal people do know what they are, but find avoiding them to be more convenient than using them.