Re:Google is killing the open web
by MrVandemar on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:22AM
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Immaterial. If the answer is either 'yes' or 'no', it makes no actual difference: gopher still exists, is still a thing, is still successful. It feels like you're just trying to move the goal-posts and redefine what 'lose' means and trying to lure the poster into a "gotcha".
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Re:Google is killing the open web
by sharpfuryz on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:36AM
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It's not about a "gotcha."
Browsers once supported the GOPHER protocol but dropped it around a decade ago. This serves as an analogy: if users don't use XSLT/XML daily, browsers may eventually drop support for XSLT - supporting features cost money
Re:Google is killing the open web
by MrVandemar on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:09AM
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That's not a great analogy. Firefox once supported RSS feeds as live bookmarks and dropped it, and not because people didn't use it, because people did use it and bemoaned its loss for years afterwards.
Re:Google is killing the open web
by Ferret7446 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:53PM
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This is a "cope" argument. GP doesn't mean literally no one uses it; they mean very few people use it. Yes, there are people using RSS/XML, but that proportion is (will be?) 0% when rounded to the nearest Nth decimal. They are, unfortunately, insignificant.