djacobs

Totally agreed. Wikiwand has made me excited every time I see a Wikipedia link because the reading experience is so well thought out.

This is the way we should be talking about privacy. Using vivid examples that are relevant to everyday people’s lives on both sides of the political divide. Avoiding broad, philosophical-sounding proclamations.

I hope people on HN are taking note.

Interesting to see that this headline typo (copied from the Gizmodo article) has lasted on the front page of HN for 9+ hours!

Chalk it up to only reading the beginnings and endings of words?

I agree, the substance was there, but the story could use some editing and organization. If it were me, it'd look something like:

  1) How people think URLs work, the good parts that people see every day
  2) Abstract problems with URLs, followed by concrete examples, maybe links to prominent related bugs
  3) Suggested fixes for the problems, including what browers are doing at a UX level
  4) Honest look at tradeoffs involved for end users
  5) Remaining complications and unanswered questions

This looks excellent. I've wanted to build something like this for a while, and I'm excited to play around with it.

Nice work!