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If only the Web had a way to make text clickable withtout showing the whole target URL.
by outadoc 5y ago
If only the Web had a way to make text clickable withtout showing the whole target URL.
- dncornholio 5y agoThe technology just isn't there yet.
- Flankk 5y agoThe reason is that trolls like to post links to shock sites or a google search for something terrible. Even worse, you could get rickrolled.
- kreeben 5y agoSome day we will have native browser support for the full URL showing in the status field.
- zaphirplane 5y agoOh no cried the scammers, how will we ever again trick people into clicking a link
- johannes1234321 5y agowindow.status to the rescue! We must override the long scam URL there!
- tcmart14 5y agoJust wanted to say, the best part was acknowledging the worst was being rickrolled. xD
- npteljes 5y agoThere must be other reasons, if it doesn't make sense technologically, no? Instagram also has the tech to show more than 3 images in a row, and Twitter could allow longer texts if they wanted so.
- zaphirplane 5y agoSarcasm acknowledged Hiding in the URL is a favorite feature for scams and pranks
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI find inline links incredibly disruptive to my reading flow, the change in color makes my eyes start jumping around in the text. Wikipedia especially is absolutely hopeless, to the point where I've built a mirror that removes all inline links. (A page looks like this: https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Hyperlink https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Hyperlink )
- bananamerica 5y agoLooks good. A bit out of date though
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYeah, I think the there is a new data dump available, will rebuild the html files from that soon.
- breggles 5y agoJust found this FF add-on [1], yesterday, which removes all links from a page. Works reasonably well. Can also invoke reader view after removing links and get the benefits there. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nolinks/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nolinks/
- efreak 5y agoWouldn't a user script work just as well for this purpose? `document.querySelectorAll('a').for each(a=>{a.outerHTML=a.innerHTML});`
- marginalia_nu 5y agoSure, that works too. You still get the megabyte pageloads though, and you need to carry the script with you every where you go.
- anigbrowl 5y agoJust make it the same color. For me links on HN are underlined but the same color as regular text or a slightly dimmer gray if already visited. It's one of the first things I do when I install a new browser and if it's hard that browser doesn't stay installed long.