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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by 86J8oyZv on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:22AM (#23731561)
What about "inline images can't be linkable?" Caption text could still link to an enlarged/detailed version. But if images can never be clicked/linked, it would be hard to abuse them for ads the way we see today.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by warkdarrior on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:45PM (#23733414)
That is adorably naive. This is why we have interstitials. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage )
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