Ask HN: Why has ChatGPT disabled links to websites?
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1 hour ago
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I was just using ChatGPT to help me pick an SDK library. It mentions a few options by name (e.g. Baileys, whatsapp-web.js), but when I click those names rather than opening a browser with the source page like it used to, it now opens a modal and uses ChatGPT to basically generate a fake homepage for this tool.

From what I can tell, there is no longer any way to easily get to the underlying web page that was referenced in generating its answer to my question.

This feels like a pretty meaningful step backwards. Am I missing something?

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jjgreen
1 hour ago
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It is prepping for advertising, you can't watch their adverts when you go to another site.
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krschacht
9 minutes ago
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Dang, that would be unfortunate if this is driven by ads.
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