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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
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everdrive ◴[] No.45102820[source]
I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls.

I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking which is _not_ prevented when loading the preview? If you have a phishing test url with a unique identifier, do you flunk the test even if you don't click through?

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1. Y-bar ◴[] No.45103051[source]
Mostly in agreement, though I could perhaps find them useful if not for:

Four times of five the link previews are blocked by a cookie consent or newsletter signup modal anyway.