I disagree with the decision strongly, but I'm a developer and probably a "power user". A casual user might not even know what a URL is.
Do you know there's a staggering amount of users who type "google.com" into Google?
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
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Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#102Another phrase I live by: "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions." There will be some VP of Product or Engineering buried deep in the bureaucracy who is pushing this, deciding with no evidence (or, worse, lots of evidence to the contrary; believe me this happens) that it is the "users who are wrong" [1]. It now takes something like 4 taps to get to the point where I can correct or otherwise edit the URL in m…
Insightful, but I am confused by the final paragraph:
> I'm tired of this anti-Web and anti-accessibility SJW nonsense
“SJW” must have a meaning I’m not familiar with, because Social Justice Warriors would be pro-accessibility, not anti.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#103Another phrase I live by: "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions." There will be some VP of Product or Engineering buried deep in the bureaucracy who is pushing this, deciding with no evidence (or, worse, lots of evidence to the contrary; believe me this happens) that it is the "users who are wrong" [1]. It now takes something like 4 taps to get to the point where I can correct or otherwise edit the URL in m…
I'm not sure how I feel about the proposed (anti-?)feature, but in what way is this "SJW nonsense"?
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because I want to use my own DNS server and block ads at the DNS level rather than the browser level. With this move, Google has effectively white listed adsense / adwords to not be blocked regardless of the network settings of the device.
this is confusing. https://www.xda-developers.com/fix-dns-ad-blocker-chrome/ seems that the problem is not async itself, but that chrome ignores the system DNS settings and uses googles own DNS servers instead.
That is a good point, I might have been pointing at the wrong issue in Chrome. I have only seen this behavior happen since 2-3 days ago and all my research pointed me to async dns being the culprit. I am really eager to find out if this can be disabled in any way, but my Chrome time has come to an end with recent developments.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#105Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're already trying to force that at the network level instead of the browser level using signed exchanges. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
Ffs. I’m going back to gopher at some point.
Gopher over SNA/OSI is worse than WWW/TCP/IP in terms of ability to publish UGC.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is, why haven't you quit already? The only things it offers others don't, are anti consumer vendor lock in nonsense like hangouts and google earth. (Not sure about hangouts and meet these days, mozilla likely made it work, but not for lack of scumbag google trying otherwise).
Because it has bugs that make it unusable for some people (e.g developers) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628162
The difference being that when Chrome is unusable for developers (such as hiding the URL!), it's always a feature not a bug?
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#108While this might be useful for a casual user, hidden URLs are a huge problem for web developers. Asking for a screenshot from client is not enough, now I'll have to provide additional instructions how to copy/paste full URL when reporting issues. Not to mention all possible problems with misconfigured servers when www and www-less domains lead to same website, but some script refuses to work on one of those. While it…
there is a trick for at least chrome before 85, where if you install the google-made extension "suspicious site reporter" it will show the full url including protocol (which you can't even do with flags so it tampers with something internally which means they don't have to do this at all)
I highly doubt a non-default extension has extra permissions that aren't available to regular extensions...
Can anyone reproduce this?
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#109At chrome://flags there is one called #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls, which I have turned on. This enables you to right click on the address bar, and turn on the option "Always show full URLs". It will always shows the full URL including the protocol, but I suspect they will remove this flag at some point.
Thanks. I enabled that flag last week and thought it didn't work. I didn't know there was a second step. Much better now.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they're already trying to force that at the network level instead of the browser level using signed exchanges. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
Ffs. I’m going back to gopher at some point.
Which is soon to be usurped by Google because it starts with “Go.”