Kim‽ @kimpegasus@awoo.space

*intense, rhythmic screaming akin to that in Black Box's Ride On Time*

For some reason I’m imagining people on Star Trek using the ship’s computer like it’s an Amazon Echo.

“You have three minutes, Commander, not a second more.”
“Computer, set a timer for three minutes.”
“Three minutes. Starting now.”

I wish Siri Shortcuts supported making specific Bluetooth actions other than just turning it on and off. I mean, connecting to my earphones takes 3 taps, but I do it so much that reducing that to 1 or 0 would still be worth it.

And now we've managed to reproduce it on someone else's computer; so this is definitely not some glitch with me, this is actually something Google is doing.

Here's a video of me changing the value of a cookie in Chrome's Incognito Mode, causing the site to redact search results.

And reproduced in Firefox too. (Note: This didn't originally happen in Chrome or Firefox, I've instead found what information Google is reading to send back redacted results.)

For the non-believers. The same thing happening in Chrome.

More screenshots showing this not happening to non-European news sources, and how it still occurs in the old non-JS Google results layout.

This is all in Safari, by the way.

But yeah... anyone else got or heard about Google actively redacting links to news sources from results (even though the legislation that would require it isn't in force AFAIK)?

The same result occurs if disabling JavaScript, which falls back to a much older version of the results page, indicating this is a change on Google's server side and not an issue loading things.

Looking at the code, the tiles at the top of the page have no text and are loading a blank 1×1 pixel image.

Results further down the page have the same amount of empty whitespace for all of the titles.

Notes:
* This only happens to results from news websites.
* Specifically news websites inside of Europe. (Al Jazeera, India Today, US sites, etc. all show up).
* This happens even if the search term is not news related.

I thought Google's 'empty search result' graphics about the possible EU copyright directive were mockups but apparently not (at least for me)???

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