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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

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Post by kungato »

I'd personally prefer if ot wasn't hidden but after first hamd experiencing non tech savvy family members trying to decipher the query part and some accusing someone of trying to hack them I'm for the change. The whole query string philosophy is such an outdated hack. Today it's just thousands of tracking qieries.

What I hate is how poorly they worded when websites use http instead of https. It says "connection not secure" which makes people think there is a hacker somewhere hacking their connection. What they should have done and must correct is to make the wording "this website is not following safety guidelines". I'm tired if explaining.

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by saurik »

curiousgal wrote: post #17
Gehinnn wrote: post #4

This might be harmful to github pages where it would hide the repository name. If they include this without offering an option to turn it off, I will quit using Chrome.

I switched to Firefox years ago and never looked back.

Given that Firefox slowly adds all the things we hate about Chrome due to the argument "we need to compete for normal users", how much do you want to bet Firefox will hide the URL in a few months (and even remove the setting that lets you change it)? :(

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by rwha »

Gehinnn wrote: post #4

This might be harmful to github pages where it would hide the repository name. If they include this without offering an option to turn it off, I will quit using Chrome.

Couldn't this also be harmful _using_ something like github pages? Someone could create a page that would look almost right for, as an example, https://username.github.io/google/google-authenticator-andro...

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by arexxbifs »

0xy wrote: post #101

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?

> A casual user might not even know what a URL is.

And this will add a few extra hoops for them to jump through before they learn, so that they'll never have to leave the reassuring embrace of Google's ad trackers. How convenient. :)

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by tuukkah »

cannedslime wrote: post #75
curiousgal wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Firefox years ago and never looked back.

Firefox donating to what is literally a encrypted message service for open societies foundation agitprop groups is what made me purge firefox from all my systems. I'd rather be tracked up the A by google for commercial purposes than supporting anti-democratic agitprop bullshit.

You do realise that you don't get to choose between getting tracked by Google or "supporting" the goals of Mozilla Foundation (such as freedom of speech for all including your political enemies)? That is, by choosing Chrome you also "support" any and all political goals of Google (such as replacing the open web with AMP).

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

Angostura wrote: post #60
nxpnsv wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is weird not more people just respond this way rather than getting all worked up about it...

It's weird that people like a particular browswer for a number of its feature, but are upset about a change that makes it worse?

It's weird that they complain yet don't actually switch.

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by onion2k »

butz wrote: post #62

While 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…

If you're relying on bug reports to find why a page is broken you're in for a bad time because 99% of the time the user isn't going to report anything. They're just going to think your page is broken and stop using it. Use a telemetry and error reporting service like Sentry or Rollbar. These services can strip sensitive data on the client before it gets logged.

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by YarickR2 »

cannedslime wrote: post #75
curiousgal wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Firefox years ago and never looked back.

Firefox donating to what is literally a encrypted message service for open societies foundation agitprop groups is what made me purge firefox from all my systems. I'd rather be tracked up the A by google for commercial purposes than supporting anti-democratic agitprop bullshit.

Could you please clarify what are you talking about ?

Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

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Post by onion2k »

ck2 wrote: post #79
butz wrote: post #62

While 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)

Asking a user to install "suspicious site reporter" in order to send a bug report is going to throw up a few problems.
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