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177 points keepamovin | 1 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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1. aspenmayer ◴[02 Sep 25 17:43 UTC] No.45106500[source]▶
> I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins?

If it’s anything like Reader View in Firefox, I would expect it to ignore plugins, which is absurd in the Reader View case, and would be in the link preview case as well. So much for my browser being a user agent.