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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by jessriedel on Monday April 23, 2018 @10:17AM (#16903569)
> the search for yet another "disable" setting begins....

Your inability to figure out how to disable it was already counted as success!

> the rates of disabling the feature are negligibly low — a strong indicator that people find it useful.

https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w...

Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by therealdrag0 on Sunday April 29, 2018 @02:19PM (#16953181)
> To ensure that these rates were not artificially low due to usability issues, we also confirmed in a separate qualitative test that users were indeed able to find and operate the disable functionality if they desired to disable Page previews. (From their AB article)