it's not just grumpy old fartness, i swear
Nov. 1st, 2007 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So i'm seeing more and more links on LJ which include Snap Shots. These serve no discernible purpose other than bling. It's not like the preview you get of the page in question is readable, or is going to make any difference in whether or not you click the link. In fact, i find they slow me down, because they make me pause before clicking a link i was going to use.
[Poll #1081038]
[Poll #1081038]
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:29 pm (UTC)Jules & Co.
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 02:30 pm (UTC)http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:35 pm (UTC)I think I'll add the blocks just in case, though. Can't hurt!
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:44 pm (UTC)Go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/
UNCLICK Graphic Previews - seems to be the default personal journal setting thankfully, though it seems to default to ON in community posts.
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 02:37 pm (UTC)I don't think you're a fuddy-duddy. (:
Thanks for reminding me.
Date: 2007-11-01 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 03:24 pm (UTC)Mouseover links seem to be the new detritus on the information superhighway. The ones that show up in the text of email messages on Yahoo seem to be actually useful; however, when they show up under random words and phrases on various other pages (often with the text stolen straight from Wikipedia), they seem... i don't know, kind of alien, like the product of a non-human intelligence.
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Date: 2007-11-01 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-01 05:13 pm (UTC)They don't bug me so much, but I can understand why some might get irritated.
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Date: 2007-11-01 06:04 pm (UTC)I'm not opposed in principle (I like Windows Vista's conceptually similar rollover concept, where you can see a miniature version of a different application window by rolling over it on the task bar), but in execution I'm leaning towards "useless bling."
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Date: 2007-11-01 08:02 pm (UTC)I don't know if it shuts them off for everybody or just the viewer, but I don't see them anymore on anybody's journals.
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Date: 2007-11-01 09:51 pm (UTC)But if sixapart is so absolutely hellbent on using them, give me an option in my settings that ensures that I never see them *anywhere*. Oh, sure, I can deactive them. On a per-browser basis. That's just great. I work on several different computers, with several different OS's, and several different browsers, and guess what? I keep coming across those fucking things. I told you assholes that I never want to see them again, so that means that I never want to see them again. If I'm logged in to my account, I should never see one. Not ever.
Seriously, learning that this kind of shit isn't good is the whole reason we had the late 90's.
God, those things piss me off...