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.
Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature
Neato@ttrpg.network 8 months agoI 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?
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
bjorney@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I feel like 99% of its usage was to avoid ads/paywalls on news sites
NoRodent@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I honestly thought it was already gone.