Thursday, March 21, 2024

Google are arseholes

Google have, in their infinte stupidity, decided to get rid of the valuable cache tool.  I used this quite a bit, to see the details of pages that have been changed or deleted, and to get around the page blocking rules that my work IT department (who are also stupid, and arseholes) have arbitrarily decided to impose.  such as, for instance, every single website hosted in Germany, because reasons.

there's actually a gravesite for all of the stuff Google has killed over the years, from the esoteric to the useless, to the really valuable tools that make you wonder why the hell anyone thought getting rid of it was a good idea.  https://killedbygoogle.com/

luckily, you can still use the cache: operator to invoke this, at least until they kill that off too.  so the above website address becomes cache:https://killedbygoogle.com/

Google are arseholes.