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Sigh. Now browsers are as powerful as OSes. Why do you need OSes? Address bars? People don't need them. Google should tell you which website you're visiting is
by smlckz 6y ago
Sigh. Now browsers are as powerful as OSes. Why do you need OSes?
Address bars? People don't need them. Google should tell you which website you're visiting is good or which is bad if they hide the address bar.
- asimpletune 6y agoI’m not sure why this is being downvoted, this is an accurate albeit sardonic description of what’s happening. People don’t want to visit AMP sites, they want to visit the site that’s the original source for their news, etc...
- daveed 6y agoI mean, depends who you mean by people? I'm pretty happy to go to amp sites. The thing I care about is the content.
- asimpletune 6y agoYeah, well maybe after they have this power, we can leave it to google to fix all the content next ;)
- achn 6y agoThen you've not used many AMP sites - many do not function properly and try to 'stream' the content as you scroll leading to a garbage experience and missing content.
- avasthe 6y agoThey are faster than average webshit. That matters to user, even if the bootcamp webshit and his accountant manager doesn't think so.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoI have never had that experience. Maybe there's something wrong with your browser.
- daveed 6y agoMaybe we tend to go to different websites, but I don't know how you can make that initial statement. I use my phone to browse the internet a fair amount.
- kergonath 6y agoThe premise “browsers are as powerful as OSes” is dubious. “Why do you need OSes” is something I would expect from someone who does not know how a computer works. Whilst they should probably be tweaked, address bars are central to the web as it is currently. Google should stay as far as possible from me and has no business telling me it approves of the sites I am browsing. I did not downvote the post, but there is no sentence in it that does not make me regret having read it.
- brianush1 6y agoI understood the "Why do you need OSes" as "Why would you use Windows when you can use ChromeOS, since the only thing you'll ever need to open is Chrome" And all of these opinions are obviously not held by the poster but are rather what the poster believes Google wants.
- kergonath 6y agoIf it is sarcasm, it’s not great. These exact points are commonly made by people who clearly take them seriously. These people are obnoxious enough, there’s no need to reproduce their talking points. My experience is that as much as some geeks love to go on about web apps, real people still do more than browse the web on their computers.
- smlckz 6y agoThere's more ''consumers'' out there than ''real people''.
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- smlckz 6y agoNow you know about web. Many (all?) people here (reading this shit) know. If you hear about what they are into, they are trying to get ''the next billion'' people into Their hands. Most of this ''next billion'' people don't have the time and/or courage to learn anything. They want to get their job done. (They will learn if they're forced to.) What these big companies are trying to do is very clear. They don't want these fools to know much about web. If these people suddenly starts learning about how web works, that'd be a disaster (for Them). Now, the address bar is just a distraction to them, nothing else. Now, if Google is removing them, let them. If the address bar is hidden, then there's less clutter. So, they'll think that it's better. (You and me know that isn't any better for us. I'd be really angry if they completely remove it.) > Why are you referring to those big companies as 'Them'? < You don't know yet?