So this question gets asked any time Gemini comes up. Usually there are a lot of answers, some along the same vein, some about personal preference, some that do

So this question gets asked any time Gemini comes up. Usually there are a lot of answers, some along the same vein, some about personal preference, some that don't seem to sell the concept much and maybe some that do. A core part of the idea is that with Gemini you know what you're getting when you open a link. If I wrote a blog with a very very minimal rendering (which are nice) and I put the link up, you wouldn't know it from blogspam until you clicked it. With HTTP a link can deliver anything. It is reassuring to know you're getting a document to read and nothing more. The restrictions on what you can do are a feature. I want to know that when I'm in the mood to just read that I am not going to have a video autoplay and get asked to sign up for a newsletter and have to accept cookies and have infinite scrolling recommendations and a nested menu unique to your site. And when what I'm about to click starts with https:// https:// I have no guarantees. It gets a little walled off feeling, and that's OK. If only a handful of people care about this thing, then it works. If it becomes widely used, that's cool too. It isn't intended to take over the world, it is intended as a tool, to be used by people who have a use for it.