Why do they have to make it so difficult!?
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In order to grab this number to copypaste into a Google Calendar entry because I want to call them next week, I can't just copypaste the text. Oh no, I have to use Google Lens to search for the text and find the number. FFS.
It's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does f
k all so it might as well be plain text.
It's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does f
k all so it might as well be plain text.Cloudy147 said:
Apple seems to be able to read images now, not sure if you are using Apple or android, but on my iPad I just press and hold and it bring it up:
But I agree with your sentiment, making text an image can only be a deliberate obstacle, to put you off calling.
I was on a PC so had to right click then select Google Lens. Left click did nothing at all - wonder if it was designed for smart devices?But I agree with your sentiment, making text an image can only be a deliberate obstacle, to put you off calling.
That's a pretty easy number to remember.
But yeah being an image is a bit daft for that kind of number. At a time it was a thing to prevent bots reading it and indexing/saving it, but these days I'm not sure why you'd do it!?
Perhaps an easy way to reference it and know it's correct everwhere, but surely there are ways to do that better still as plain text?
But yeah being an image is a bit daft for that kind of number. At a time it was a thing to prevent bots reading it and indexing/saving it, but these days I'm not sure why you'd do it!?
Perhaps an easy way to reference it and know it's correct everwhere, but surely there are ways to do that better still as plain text?
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
biggiles said:
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Probably this.It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Before captcha and anti-spam measures it wasn't uncommon for email addresses to be images too. "Email us by clicking here" with a hyperlink mailto: was madness with bots and whatnot crawling the web.
biggiles said:
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
I'm surprised people are really so lazy now that they can't manage to type a few digits but then I guess that's the whole point of this thread.It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Pachydermus said:
biggiles said:
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
I'm surprised people are really so lazy now that they can't manage to type a few digits but then I guess that's the whole point of this thread.It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Hoofy said:
Pachydermus said:
biggiles said:
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
I'm surprised people are really so lazy now that they can't manage to type a few digits but then I guess that's the whole point of this thread.It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Hoofy said:
In order to grab this number to copypaste into a Google Calendar entry because I want to call them next week, I can't just copypaste the text. Oh no, I have to use Google Lens to search for the text and find the number. FFS.
It's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does fk all so it might as well be plain text.
This comes from some chai sipping wIt's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does f
k all so it might as well be plain text.ker who got a "degree" in UX from some online collage trying to justify their existence. Apple needed to invent a field to justify why their devices went contrary to established HMI/HCI (Human-Machine Interface/Human-Computer Interface) science, UX (User eXperience) was their answer and now it has infected everything.
P.S. try a print preview to see if it gets rid of the w
k6 bks. Hoofy said:
In order to grab this number to copypaste into a Google Calendar entry because I want to call them next week, I can't just copypaste the text. Oh no, I have to use Google Lens to search for the text and find the number. FFS.
It's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does fk all so it might as well be plain text.
If you've got a Pixel (or later Galaxy), you can use Circle to Search to fetch it.It's because they want this fancy dropdown. DON'T PUT THE DROPDOWN IN, YOU MORONS. It's not even a necessity.
And clicking the number does f
k all so it might as well be plain text.https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/145089...
Pachydermus said:
Hoofy said:
Pachydermus said:
biggiles said:
By making it an image, they'll probably halve the number of people who call the number, and screen out a lot of the frivolous calls. Which will be a material saving in call centre staff cost (assuming it's cheaper to service via email / contact forms versus the phone).
It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
I'm surprised people are really so lazy now that they can't manage to type a few digits but then I guess that's the whole point of this thread.It could save £millions, simply for putting an image instead of text.
Pachydermus said:
That's my point. It would take a few seconds to type it into your diary. Defintely faster than messing around with google lens just so you can hit copy/paste instead.
By design, so Google can lift all your data about what you’re doing, just to copy a phone number ‘conveniently’God the Internet/smartphones really have turned to utter s
t over the last 20 years.Mr Whippy said:
Pachydermus said:
That's my point. It would take a few seconds to type it into your diary. Defintely faster than messing around with google lens just so you can hit copy/paste instead.
By design, so Google can lift all your data about what you re doing, just to copy a phone number conveniently God the Internet/smartphones really have turned to utter s
t over the last 20 years.(Crikey, that was apparently 1997, nearly 30 years ago: https://www.w3.org/press-releases/1997/html32-rec/ and https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ )
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