If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats.
I’m so sick of Google…
Submitted 9 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to [deleted]
https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/redesigning-chrome-downloads-to-keep.html?m=1
If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats.
I’m so sick of Google…
An awful lot of text for “We made a new Downloads UI.”
I think it’s pretty brave of them to make the bold decision to do what Edge and Firefox literally already do.
I guess they had an epiphany.
I'm gonna call this intentional satire:
It overruns on mobile Safari, too. It’s Ok, I just used the new download feature to download the rest of the sentences.
Did you enjoy your core download journey?
so they copied Mozilla’s downloads ui? that’s an improvement for chrome imo
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if the page looks like shit on Firefox Mobile
don’t worry, it does (I use mull, which is a fork of Firefox for android
The shit marketing people will come up with is so funny. Someone got paid to write all this!
This is nothing compared to the verbal barf Microsoft managed to put online.
I imagine most of the filler text got spit out by AI.
As someone who has geeked out on fonts since we were trading bitmap fonts for System 5 on the Mac, I can say that article is fine. Believe it or not, all of that actually matters to graphic design/text design people.
I got to “crown keeper of communication” and then I had to turn it off. Jesus.
Pro tip, just don’t breath whenever the anger gets worse, you will pass out before you throw up! ;)
Not a shitpost
true
leekleak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean fuck Google and all, but this is just an announcement that they are copying Firefox’s way of display download information. Did I miss something?
1984@lemmy.today 9 months ago
It’s how they are talking in the blog post… You don’t see it?
leekleak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean is this your first time hearing corporate/marketing speech on the internet? I don’t like it myself either, but it is not like it kills children in africa…