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  BTW, there's no way to navigate your blog now ? That's good design ?

What do you mean? The user can just use the browser's location field and go up a directory to /blog, where they should see links to published posts for April.

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Perhaps if browsers had a 'go up one folder' button like file explorers, this might be reasonable, but it's pretty disingenuous to expect users to edit the URL bar for navigation. Even the simplest Web 1.0 sites still have basic navigation.

Craigslist.com is a masterpiece of usable information architecture in the Web 1.0/1.5 era. They had very minimal styling, close to browser default, and descriptive categories with all related sub-categories appearing underneath it.

Manually editing the browser search bar isn't something a user should ever need to do.

Yet I'm constantly doing this on some of the most popular websites (eg. Amazon) to remove tracking portions and other unwanted cruft when sharing or archiving links.

You should know there are both Chrome extensions and Tampermonkey scripts for that.

Thanks! Which is your favorite?

I used to use TamperMonkey (even wrote a somewhat popular script a long time ago) and more plugins, but tired of the cognitive overhead maintaining the setup eg. every time I format/migrate, or when my browser decided to break backward compatibility, or when sites changed and the mod was no longer being updated, or when my browser got slow and I had to try and isolate which one(s) were at fault.

I'm sure the plugins are great, I just personally find it easier now to remove by hand (and other sledgehammers like disabling JavaScript altogether for the most aggregiously annoying sites).

You're right that it's annoying. I use Edge, and I think it syncs extensions now, so I haven't really had to set it up for a while, though.

I think the best one to install and forget is Tracking Token Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...), but obviously it's not going to get all of them. Like, it's not continuously updated AFAIK. If you want to input the parameters it strips, then you have to use Query Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/query-stripper/cce...).

I wish its dev would create a crowdsourced list, though.

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Sounds like an amazing experience on mobile

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