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177 points keepamovin | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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tux3 ◴[02 Sep 25 14:15 UTC] No.45103408[source]▶
It's an idea that makes a lot of sense on Wikipedia, because every page there explicitly starts with a short summary, and often an image that can be pulled from the infobox. I'm not yet convinced it will work well on the rest of the Web.
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1. ARandumGuy ◴[02 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45104881[source]▶
But also that's been part of Wikipedia's website for years now, no special browser support necessary. And because it's tailored specifically to Wikipedia, it works great!

Page preview seems nice in theory, but I'm unconvinced it'll be that useful. Web pages just don't have a the level of standardization necessary to automatically grab a useful preview. And I don't think Firefox has a big enough pull to make that sort of standard.

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2. sudahtigabulan ◴[03 Sep 25 01:31 UTC] No.45111300[source]▶
I used to appreciate it (on Wikipedia), but too often it gets triggered by accident and prevents me from reading what I actually want to read. So much so that I had to find some way to disable it (probably by blocking JS via uBO).

Similar story with GitHub "hovercards". They were helpful, but someone recently decided they have to work in the Issues/PR lists too and, again, it just prevents me from reading the very thing I want to read. Had to disable them (everywhere, unfortunately).