Kim‽ @kimpegasus@awoo.space

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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So... what happens now?

A quick hiatus from not posting Steven Universe reactions to go oh my god everyone is dead the show is over

It's not premature optimisation to be fiddling with a component that's used hundreds of times on a single page, thinking of adding a slight gradient to it, then deciding that's probably gonna negatively affect paint speed and benefit nobody and not do it, right?

Yank is a slang verb for masturbation.
Trump is a slang noun for farting.

I'm surprised people haven't made more jokes about Trump, the Yankee president.

Interesting note: The Treaty of Amsterdam, which gave UK and Ireland opt-out of the Schengen Area, does so only on the provision that the Common Travel Area is maintained.

If a hard Brexit results in a hard border reappearing between NI/Eire, Ireland then becomes obliged to join the Schengen.

“If you ignore the votes of a few million people then Leave won by way more votes!”

Being able to override the government is part of their job??

BEING ABLE TO OVERRIDE THE GOVERNMENT IS PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY!!!

ART!