[–] 1 point 2 months ago

Reddit is so compromised it's lost a lot of utility for a lot of things. The large userbase is still revolutionary for getting help with problems or planning stuff, but other uses where money is at stake are almost openly corrupted. Reddit administration is dishonest and corrupted as well in their moderation.

I hope they do continue to obey the directives of the politicians without fighting back. The more leftists they kick off, the less utility the site has. The right, and moderates, might be shocked to learn just how unfunny, and unlearned they are, without the real people they are kicking off while allowing chatbots to run amok and poison threads where money is at stake.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I found some streaming links on reddit that are no longer hosted on search engines because fuck us I guess. But looking for other streaming links on reddit results has been a bust, I am 2/10 or so. But the two hits I got on streaming links were very very good sites, not like that scammy 123movies shit, these are quality sites.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    The point about zero-click flew over your head. After inputting your email address and clicking verify or whatever, your browser is meant to ask you for consent to check your inbox first. You can find that detail in the full API proposal. The video demo does not do this, which is why I claimed Google would probably omit this step and make the consent implicit :)

    However, at that point, the website can in fact check if you're logged in to a specific email address automatically. There is no need for user input. This can be abused by websites to link your identity, for example, if they suspect you are using two different email addresses for two different accounts.

    Also, there is a huge difference between the browser displaying your email inbox and the browser having autonomy over it in the background with no user interaction.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    I suspect Google would prefer a zero-click solution for their browser.

    You have to put in your email address and click a button still. There's a video demo of this in TFA. There's no way they've been dumb enough to let websites figure out your email address automatically, come on.

    your browser accessing your inbox

    Accessing your email via your web browser is literally how 99.99% of people use email. There's nothing dubious about it.

    I get that you have a gut fear about it though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Firstly, your browser accessing your inbox in whatever way is very dubious. Secondly, I'm not sure the "consent" part of the protocol would be implemented properly. I suspect Google would prefer a zero-click solution for their browser. This would mean that a website can theoretically iterate over all email accounts you are currently logged into by doing there verifications for different addresses in the background.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The meta tag makes your browser default to dark for a user's dark preference. That means you don't need additional CSS at all for a baseline. It also means if you forget or miss a dark or light alternative style for some element, the browser defaults already cover them.

    Thinker mentioned the separate CSS loading separately. Which can lead to relayouts, in the worst cases flashing like they mentioned, but typically just increased loading time until first render, and less robustness against connection issues (html loads but css doesn't).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Yeah, that would be an excellent feature of the browser. That way the site doesn’t even know if it’s your current location or just one you picked.

    I was thinking a clickable map. But also allow pasting coordinates.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Thanks for sharing I didn't know about these features. I recently uploaded some photos to my web server. At the moment they all load at once when you open the page. It's only 14mb but not ideal if you're on a slow connection. I might try lazy loading for thumbnails and modals for viewing the higher res versions.

    Interestingly the datalist element seems to work on desktop but not on mobile, despite both running firefox 154.0

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Also, I am not convinced that the intenret's ideal format is a markup language. I believe there is great value in scripting. The problem is that browsers gave too much power to the websites and their remote servers over the clients computer, way beyond what is reasonable for scripting of internet documents. We need browsers whose scripting capabilities are only relevant for internet documents, not entire arbitrary applications.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, while HTML is more capable than a non Html-seasoned developer assumes, it is still showing that it is not enough. A lot of rough edges, a lot of what feels like incomplete or one-off features, rather than something that feels well planned and complete.

    And I doubt this will change. Chrome is heavily invested in keeping a reliance on Javascript, and particularly a browser engine that is very difficult to implement.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I originally built this page in one hour during HTML Day 2026 to write and celebrate HTML, but I’ve since made some edits to better express and highlight where the browser implementation of some of this stuff is severely lacking and/or completely fails to meet accessibility needs. So, by all means, try it out, but make it as accessible as you can!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Unpopular opinion: I don't think this is worth the screen real estate it takes up, even if small. It's just too specific of a feature that does not inherently need changing on the fly.

    You should configure your light / dark mode preferences in your OS and browser, and sites can just pick them up from there. Changing them on the fly is unnecessary.

    And for websites, you should probably just use those dark mode extensions anyways if that's your preference. Even if a site doesn't support it, you'll get most of the way there.

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