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Knowing how to navigate to websites directly seems important for laypeople to understand. There is point where dumbing down technology doesn't make it meaningf

Knowing how to navigate to websites directly seems important for laypeople to understand. There is point where dumbing down technology doesn't make it meaningfully more accessible but just serves to harm users. Hiding the URL bar is past that point.

Dalewyn 3y ago
I'm a computer nerd, I just use Google to look up and go to most websites I want these days. Why? Because I'm not confident I can type their URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website URL. Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed. Between inconvenience, unintuitiveness, and "I ain't got time for this" mentality it's no surprise why file system structures are obfuscated away.
- thewaywego 3y ago
  >URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website googles no1 spot has become scam city hundreds of times for big namens just this year alone >Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed. in the time you complained about this problem of your own creation you could habe bookmarked your top 20-50 visited sites. off topic but i see more and more "I'm too lazy to do x" where the solution would be easier than just being "lazy"
  - Dalewyn 3y ago
    Look boy, my time only becomes ever more valuable as I age. I literally ain't got time for 'puter nonsense anymore. Did I really type in amazon.com correctly? Not amazn.com? amazon.cm? Or some other stupid typo that will send me straight to Scam City? In that time I could have gone to Google (which is my browser home page), typed in something vaguely resembling "amazon", and the first or second link will be amazon.com 99% of the time. I ain't got time.
    - rockskon 3y ago
      What about almost any other website? Google aggressively abstracts away search terms and very often gives you something irrelevant.

Dalewyn 3y ago

I'm a computer nerd, I just use Google to look up and go to most websites I want these days. Why? Because I'm not confident I can type their URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website URL. Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed. Between inconvenience, unintuitiveness, and "I ain't got time for this" mentality it's no surprise why file system structures are obfuscated away.

thewaywego 3y ago
>URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website googles no1 spot has become scam city hundreds of times for big namens just this year alone >Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed. in the time you complained about this problem of your own creation you could habe bookmarked your top 20-50 visited sites. off topic but i see more and more "I'm too lazy to do x" where the solution would be easier than just being "lazy"
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  Look boy, my time only becomes ever more valuable as I age. I literally ain't got time for 'puter nonsense anymore. Did I really type in amazon.com correctly? Not amazn.com? amazon.cm? Or some other stupid typo that will send me straight to Scam City? In that time I could have gone to Google (which is my browser home page), typed in something vaguely resembling "amazon", and the first or second link will be amazon.com 99% of the time. I ain't got time.
  - rockskon 3y ago
    What about almost any other website? Google aggressively abstracts away search terms and very often gives you something irrelevant.