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 @briankrebs btw, as I've mentioned I think the dynamic nature of the new web is the reason Google has given up on caching. A cache would only contain an image of the page given to the robot. It would increasingly *not* look like what we see when we visit the same place. 4 comments
 Google's strategy changed when Mohammed bin Salman invested in tech starting in 2018. The fossil fuel industry recognizes to keep its wealth, it needs to thwart democracies from enacting penalties for frying the planet. Funding Trump and anti-democracy billionaires' #enshittification is how. @Npars01 @briankrebs @John I did not realize he was a big investor, but it makes sense. This visit (April 2018) was just a few months prior to Jamal Khashoggi being killed (October 2018). |
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@John That's interesting. But even a static image can be very useful, esp. if the alternative if you don't get to see anything at all.
I think this is probably the correct explanation for why this feature is being killed, from the Verge story I cited above:
"Although the cache links are only now being discontinued, the writing’s been on the wall for a while. In early 2021, Google developer relations engineer Martin Splitt said the cached view was a “basically unmaintained legacy feature.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24058985/google-search-cache-feature-discontinued
@John That's interesting. But even a static image can be very useful, esp. if the alternative if you don't get to see anything at all.
I think this is probably the correct explanation for why this feature is being killed, from the Verge story I cited above:
"Although the cache links are only now being discontinued, the writing’s been on the wall for a while. In early 2021, Google developer relations engineer Martin Splitt said the cached view was a “basically unmaintained legacy feature.”