why is this a hot webdev take
URLs good
why is this a hot webdev take
hiding URLs from the user may look much cleaner but only because the corporate web loves making their URLs incomprehensible by tacking on a disgusting amount of query params for tracking and other purposes, as well as just not having good site architectures
why is this a hot webdev take
it pains me to say this but YouTube is a very good example of what to actually do (excepting the prohibitively long gibberish base64 channel names). people know how to just edit a URL to make it start at a time, or set it to HQ in the old days with &fmt=18
why is this a hot webdev take
watch. google is going to start doing the AMP thing on desktop where google is serving the page and tracking -every last click- but it LOOKS like you're on the actual site you wanna go
why is this a hot webdev take
@bclindner then they bake ads into chrome itself and you can never escape them
why is this a hot webdev take
@Aleums oh my god I didn't parse the "then" at the beginning of your post I thought they were Already Doing This and you were reporting on it lmaoo
why is this a hot webdev take
@wgahnagl seems inevitable. google is an advertiser above all other things