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I prefer copying the link to the page I'm on to share. No popups, native or otherwise.

Similarly, I like not having an app running so that you could just send me a text. Sms is bad for security, but great see sending short notifications. Almost better, as it is so limited.




FYI on Chrome/Brave Android, when you use 'share' button -> copy URL, it uses link rel=canonical meta tag if available (which generally doesn't have all FB tracking crap in the URL etc.)

Much better than directly copying the URL.


Or you could just trim the URL yourself.


The problem on mobile devices is that URL bar is single-line and has like 30 characters length and , while query string crap is sometimes several hundreds characters long. It's not every ergonomic.

But yeah I often copy the URL to "notepad" app before sharing and trim manually.


Even worse is chrome on android now. You have to copy the url, re-paste it and then edit. You don't have immediate access to the url you are on.


Which is a behaviour I observed in most power users, but none in the non-power user group.

I don't think most non-power user even want to try to trim that stuff, because they don't know what can be trimmed and what can't.


Yep unfortunately true. I recently saw an official document from local CDC in my home country. There were two URLs "find more info at" in the document:

file:///C:/Users/blabla/something.pdf

httpx://who.int/something?fbclid=<200-hundred-chars>


This is also why most non power users will have chrome browsers loaded with tons of add-ons and basically let every site start sending notifications...


> Almost better, as it is so limited.

Except that with web push the block button is two taps away. Once I’ve given away my phone number that’s it, it can be sent to anyone, I can receive messages from anywhere.


Is this a thing that happens often? Used to, your phone number was in a publicly available book. Pretty sure we use legislation to block abuse of that kind.

Similarly, used to, my browser was not a bloated application capable of sending me messages. Such that there have been times just launching chrome I get notifications I didn't know my family were going to accidentally enable...


> Is this a thing that happens often? Used to, your phone number was in a publicly available book.

When you could only call that number. Messaging is pretty different.

And sure it happens! Phone numbers are (nearly) immutable. It's a valuable piece of personal information. Your web push ID is... not.


I still get more robo calls on landlines than on my cell. Conveniently, my cell is in a different area code from where I live, so even easy to spot the bad ones. And I have never gotten an unsolicited text. That wasn't a wrong number.


I’ve gotten plenty, just for a counter-anecdote. In fact I received one today!


From who? This is literally against the law in the states. You reply stop, and if they don't, you can report them.


> I prefer copying the link to the page I'm on to share. No popups, native or otherwise.

I tend to agree, but this puts us both in the 5% of internet users who know how to do that. (And no, I'm not celebrating that low number.)


Sadly, agreed. Shame that it is moving this way.


The most used feature in Microsoft Office is the Paste button in the toolbar:

> What we didn't know until we analyzed the data was that even though so many people do use CTRL+V and do use "Paste" on the context menu, the toolbar button for Paste still gets clicked more than any other button. The command is so incredibly popular that even though there are more efficient ways of using it, many people do prefer to click the toolbar button.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jensenh/no-di...

You and I use Ctrl-V, but the vast majority of users want something a lot more visual.


As soon as you put so much in the toolbar, people have to use a mouse. That they are still taking the most naturally used action shouldn't be surprising.


Everything in Office can be navigated using the keyboard...


Not far enough, why can't websites notify me via semaphore, or signal fires!?




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