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The title of this post was edited. The original title—and the interesting part of the linked article—is "Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-bloc

The title of this post was edited. The original title—and the interesting part of the linked article—is "Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-blocking." I think it's rather telling that Simeon Vincent has buried this news in an off-handed one line comment buried in the middle of a rather long post, and I think it's unfortunate that HN's title policy has also buried the lede.

sjwright 7y ago
It is remarkable that the title on HN could be changed to something that borders on strategically dull. I don't think you could create a less communicative title if you tried. This is an important story which affects a large portion of the HN audience, yet I doubt even 1% of the affected users would know what "Manifest V3" refers to. "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" is so outrageously devoid of information that it is difficult to come up with an innocent explanation for it.
- sjwright 7y ago
  And now this article has now dropped off the front page in rapid time. I don't get what the aim is here. Why bury a story that everyone is going to know about soon enough? Edit: to the numerous people who are voting my comments down, could you please provide actual feedback?
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  - dictum 7y ago
    It's not being intentionally buried, but the rapid drop in interest is a testament to the utter dullness of "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" "Manifest V3" is jargon, which is a big problem in HN. See Show HNs that don't really explain what is the thing being introduced. The Response -> feedback -> proposed changes chain is verbose. The three concepts are almost a single concept (changes) wrought as present -> past -> future. "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" is a characteristically Google-internal-y [0] way to say "Update on coming changes to Chrome extension APIs". [0]: My unscientific feeling is that a lot of engineers at Google write about projects as if the audience is other Google engineers. It's not out of malice, but it's convenient when you don't have to explain the full rationale for a change.
petercooper 7y ago
Just in relation to your first paragraph, if you want to see how such titles change over time here on HN, they're tracked at https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/
dredmorbius 7y ago
That's been SOP for Google for at least the past year or so, if not more. Consider the titles used to announce shutdown and massive schedule and feature curtailments of Google+: "Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+" https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strob... "Expediting changes to Google+" https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expeditin... "An update on Google+ and Blogger" https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-and-blogger.html https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-a... "Important changes to Google+ for G Suite due to the consumer shutdown" https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693 From the company which defined SEO, this can only be deliberate.

sjwright 7y ago

It is remarkable that the title on HN could be changed to something that borders on strategically dull. I don't think you could create a less communicative title if you tried. This is an important story which affects a large portion of the HN audience, yet I doubt even 1% of the affected users would know what "Manifest V3" refers to. "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" is so outrageously devoid of information that it is difficult to come up with an innocent explanation for it.

sjwright 7y ago
And now this article has now dropped off the front page in rapid time. I don't get what the aim is here. Why bury a story that everyone is going to know about soon enough? Edit: to the numerous people who are voting my comments down, could you please provide actual feedback?
- deleted 7y ago
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- dictum 7y ago
  It's not being intentionally buried, but the rapid drop in interest is a testament to the utter dullness of "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" "Manifest V3" is jargon, which is a big problem in HN. See Show HNs that don't really explain what is the thing being introduced. The Response -> feedback -> proposed changes chain is verbose. The three concepts are almost a single concept (changes) wrought as present -> past -> future. "A response to feedback on the proposed changes in Manifest V3" is a characteristically Google-internal-y [0] way to say "Update on coming changes to Chrome extension APIs". [0]: My unscientific feeling is that a lot of engineers at Google write about projects as if the audience is other Google engineers. It's not out of malice, but it's convenient when you don't have to explain the full rationale for a change.

petercooper 7y ago

Just in relation to your first paragraph, if you want to see how such titles change over time here on HN, they're tracked at https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/ https://hackernewstitles.netlify.com/

dredmorbius 7y ago

That's been SOP for Google for at least the past year or so, if not more. Consider the titles used to announce shutdown and massive schedule and feature curtailments of Google+: "Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+" https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strob... "Expediting changes to Google+" https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expeditin... "An update on Google+ and Blogger" https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-and-blogger.html https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-a... "Important changes to Google+ for G Suite due to the consumer shutdown" https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693 From the company which defined SEO, this can only be deliberate.