Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine there was even that much lost revenue. Cached pages are good for seeing basic content in that page but you can’t click through links or interact with the page in any way. Were so many people using it to avoid ads?

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  • NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Were so many people using it to avoid ads?

    I doubt that as well. There are much better ways to deal with that. I always only used it when the content on the page didn’t exist anymore or couldn’t be accessed for whatever reason.

    But I suspected this was coming, they’ve been hiding this feature deeper and deeper in the last few years.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I honestly thought it was already gone.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but you can’t click through links or interact with the page in any way

    Most of the time that’s exactly what I want. I hate hunting through 473 pages of stupid bullshit in some janky forum to try to find the needle in that haystack.

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  • bjorney@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like 99% of its usage was to avoid ads/paywalls on news sites

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• PapaStevesy@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t lose what you never had. It’s desired ad revenue they’re after.

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