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also, even if those older http sites get a certificate, any embedded scripts that point at http URLs, even if those URLs are also available on https, will not l

also, even if those older http sites get a certificate, any embedded scripts that point at http URLs, even if those URLs are also available on https, will not load and break. Especially hard to fix if you have user generated HTML on there. Same for http download links from https websites, will not work anymore. anything that used cookies on embedded resources will also be broken because of the missing samesite header (same for third party cookies obviously) if google really goes through with removing alert/prompt/etc from their browser like they said they were planning to a while back, so so many things will break

EamonnMR 4y ago
Notification prompt is 10x more annoying than alert ever was.
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fleddr 4y ago
I'm uniquely bothered by this problem as I visit many such dysfunctional sites. I'm active in the (hobbyist) field of documenting species. There's thousands upon thousands of websites created by amateurs containing unique niche content. For example, somebody might have made it their lifelong hobby to document every species of bee in their territory. It's a fragmented mess of incompetently produced websites, but I find it incredibly charming and in the spirit of the original web. Above all, it is their content that has lasting value. The people behind it are good, generous. That's why it makes me so angry when their work is cast aside like this. Things not just technically breaking, in many cases simply disappearing altogether from search results.
- generalizations 4y ago
  I wonder if manually curating a list of such valuable websites would be a useful resource for constructing search engine algorithms. I mean, if I was building a search engine algo, I wouldn't necessarily know how to find the websites you describe, much less optimize for them.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y ago
  you should make copies of those sites before they disappear if you care. maybe dont rehost them without the authors consent though

EamonnMR 4y ago

Notification prompt is 10x more annoying than alert ever was.

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fleddr 4y ago

I'm uniquely bothered by this problem as I visit many such dysfunctional sites. I'm active in the (hobbyist) field of documenting species. There's thousands upon thousands of websites created by amateurs containing unique niche content. For example, somebody might have made it their lifelong hobby to document every species of bee in their territory. It's a fragmented mess of incompetently produced websites, but I find it incredibly charming and in the spirit of the original web. Above all, it is their content that has lasting value. The people behind it are good, generous. That's why it makes me so angry when their work is cast aside like this. Things not just technically breaking, in many cases simply disappearing altogether from search results.

generalizations 4y ago
I wonder if manually curating a list of such valuable websites would be a useful resource for constructing search engine algorithms. I mean, if I was building a search engine algo, I wouldn't necessarily know how to find the websites you describe, much less optimize for them.
8n4vidtmkvmk 4y ago
you should make copies of those sites before they disappear if you care. maybe dont rehost them without the authors consent though