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Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors. docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Text_fragments ht

Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors. docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Text_fragments https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Te... your link: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/#:~:text=truckers%20in%20Canada https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...

codethief 2y ago
Wow, TIL. Looks like a fairly recent feature, though (at least in certain browsers).
tjarrett 2y ago
Wow. Came here expecting to read about truckers and instead learned something really useful! Thank you!
- arduanika 2y ago
  Gentlemen you can't discuss web protocols tips on here, this is a tech forum!
- zahlman 2y ago
  I've seen it used countless times before, but I thought it was something somehow being injected into the page by a search engine (especially when it comes from custom site searches on forums), rather than a browser feature.
throw0101d 2y ago
> Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors. Find this extremely annoying, especially in search results: I want to start at the beginning of the article/post, and not some random place in the middle—which is where the highlighted snippet in the search results are from, but not helpful for learning the larger context. It also tends to mess up URLS that you may want to copy-paste as it has that text parameter garbage at the end (often with a sizeable amount of text that needs to be removed).
- freedomben 2y ago
  Agreed. I'm in the minority I'm sure, but I think this is an anti-feature. In addition to your good points, it's also very fragile as a small change in the text of the page can break the link. It also leads to monstrous URLs that are quite hard to read for people who don't know about this feature.
  - Gormo 2y ago
    It's a great way to link to the source of a verbatim quote, though. It goes straight to the relevant context, and breaks only if the source of the quote itself is somehow changed, making the new inconsistency clear.

codethief 2y ago

Wow, TIL. Looks like a fairly recent feature, though (at least in certain browsers).

tjarrett 2y ago

Wow. Came here expecting to read about truckers and instead learned something really useful! Thank you!

arduanika 2y ago
Gentlemen you can't discuss web protocols tips on here, this is a tech forum!
zahlman 2y ago
I've seen it used countless times before, but I thought it was something somehow being injected into the page by a search engine (especially when it comes from custom site searches on forums), rather than a browser feature.

throw0101d 2y ago

> Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors. Find this extremely annoying, especially in search results: I want to start at the beginning of the article/post, and not some random place in the middle—which is where the highlighted snippet in the search results are from, but not helpful for learning the larger context. It also tends to mess up URLS that you may want to copy-paste as it has that text parameter garbage at the end (often with a sizeable amount of text that needs to be removed).

freedomben 2y ago
Agreed. I'm in the minority I'm sure, but I think this is an anti-feature. In addition to your good points, it's also very fragile as a small change in the text of the page can break the link. It also leads to monstrous URLs that are quite hard to read for people who don't know about this feature.
- Gormo 2y ago
  It's a great way to link to the source of a verbatim quote, though. It goes straight to the relevant context, and breaks only if the source of the quote itself is somehow changed, making the new inconsistency clear.