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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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everdrive ◴[02 Sep 25 13:25 UTC] 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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carlosjobim ◴[02 Sep 25 14:20 UTC] No.45103485[source]▶
They would be very useful if they were instead in form of a META image and then just the website text. Not the entire website design.
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1. WorldMaker ◴[02 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45104167[source]▶
Interesting thought. A lot of sites have been adding various META tags for link previews in social media, it might be neat to have a browser native form of that, especially because making it a browser feature could help push it back to open standards (right now most of them are OpenGraph which despite "open" in the name is still somewhat proprietary to Facebook/Meta and Twitter Cards which will probably forever be called that).

One interesting breakdown: https://getoutofmyhead.dev/link-preview-meta-tags/

(ETA: This does seem to be what the feature actually does, having now tried it. Ignoring the AI Summary feature part of it, most of it does appear to be META tag driven and uses the card images of OpenGraph/Twitter Cards.)