@hl "Was it only used by 0.00001% of users, and so...

"Was it only used by 0.00001% of users, and so wasn't worth the return?"

I think this has merit. Somewhere else in this thread, it's mentioned that this caching process was very old and "unmaintained" so apparently it wasn't used very often (otherwise the process would have been maintained more). But what if it wasn't used much because users didn't know about it or understand what the link did? OTOH, advertisers may have complained that people were using it to block ads.

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Roger Sen

@IAmDannyBoling @hl @briankrebs long time I don’t use Google cache, but didn’t it allow to see news webpages without registering?

8 February at 19:03 | Open on mastodon.social

Roger Sen

@IAmDannyBoling @hl @briankrebs anyway Danny, I think you’re right. It was an old service used by a minority. Less code cruft to maintain.

8 February at 19:05 | Open on mastodon.social

Danny Boling ☮️

@rogersm

That was one way to use it. Those pages didn't have ads either, which may be the big reason they're going away. Nowadays I use https://12ft.io/ to get around paywalls. It doesn't work in all cases but enough to make it worth bookmarking.

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8 February at 20:14 | Open on mstdn.social