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177 points keepamovin | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | 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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1. NoGravitas ◴[02 Sep 25 16:33 UTC] No.45105387[source]▶
I quite prefer the link "peek" in Zen, which I'm led to understand is based on the one in Arc. Shift click a link, it opens up in a configurable-size floating modal (90% by default) on top of the current page, with controls to pop it out into a full tab or close it. It's only a small improvement over "open in new tab, switch to new tab, close new tab", but it feels nice.

The new link preview in Firefox seems a lot less useful.

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2. wonger_ ◴[02 Sep 25 18:23 UTC] No.45107052[source]▶
Sounds similar to Safari's link preview. I like it. A modal preview is less of a context switch than opening and closing a tab.