People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.
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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there’s nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mr_satan@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Why use an app when there’s a web site? In case of Wikipedia I fail to see any functional benefit for an app.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Better reading experience overall. Compartmentalizing all my Wikipedia reading so as not to mix it with my other many open tabs. (Wikipedia app has tabs, too.) Sections are not collapsed by default. Easier to search on the page by default than in the browser.
I can probably go on it I made a more in-depth comparison after using the web version for a bit…
bitfucker@programming.dev 1 month ago
The app has offline capabilities and to save articles on a named list. I use it as a reference when forgetting something or to save the list type article as a starting point when researching a software to use. Or just generally a reading material when on the go (yes, I find reading wikipedia articles entertaining)
mr_satan@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Ok, offline functionality does make sense
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Try it. It’s great.
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How much time do you spend on Wikipedia?
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes that works, and you can also use something like URLCheck and just drop that path
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What is what, an extension?
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
addons.mozilla.org/…/redirect-mobile-wikipedia/
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Nah, browsers are sandboxed to absolute shit it is such a pain in the ass to make an extension just to do a phishing attack or to buy the ownership of one to introduce malicious code.
At most an extension with really broad permissions like read/write contents of any page (a fact that is made obvious upon installation) can replace a link to take you to a phishing page to harvest creds, but thanks to SSL and HTTPS it won’t even work without fifty some odd warnings
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You live by that and I’ll live by the advice I’ve seen from infosec professionals that recommend as few add-ons as possible due to security concerns. But yes, browsers are getting more secure over time and that’s good.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I mean, couldn’t an addon just read the password you put into a login field, or send in a request, and send it off to their servers?