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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 nerdponx »

mrweasel wrote: post #116
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #87

If their goal is really to help detect fraudulent sites (the sorts of google.com.notahacker.tk), they can just show the domain in a more prominent way -- they're already deemphasizing the part of the URL after the domain name anyway. This is clearly not their motive. What Google is trying to do here is to drift the web from its most iconic components: the URL. This is the biggest threat to the web that we loved for s…

I honestly don’t think people are paying attention to the URL bar, at least not the people this feature it trying to protect. If it looks like Google.com, then it Google.com. The logo even says so. It’s a dumbing down of the internet, in an attempt to help the average user, but it won’t work and you’re just making life harder for those who know just a bit more then average.

That's bullshit, it's not an attempt to help anybody but Google.

What better way to keep people on AMP pages, than to make them so ignorant as to not even know how to tell the difference?

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

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Post by dkdk8283 »

pojntfx wrote: post #138
cletus wrote: post #94

Another 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 tired of this anti-Web and anti-accessibility SJW nonsense to the point that yeah Wtf is wrong with you people it's no longer 2016

It’s a common belief that SJW motivations are extremely toxic and unproductive.

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

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Post by itsArtur »

chrisseaton wrote: post #117
andromeduck wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because it's never significant or useful

> because it's never significant or useful But www.example.com isn't necessarily the same website as example.com.

What's the practical implication of this fact?

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

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Post by chrisseaton »

itsArtur wrote: post #154
chrisseaton wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> because it's never significant or useful But www.example.com isn't necessarily the same website as example.com.

What's the practical implication of this fact?

That the difference between them should not be hidden.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

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…

Google does have an amazing access to data on how 80 - 90% of users are using the Internet, for many Google is the entry point for their Internet experience. Maybe their data is telling them that the URL bar is basically unused?

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

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Post by psexec »

ben_w wrote: post #102
cletus wrote: post #94

Another 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.

How about this idiocy?

https://9to5google.com/2020/06/12/google-android-chrome-blac...

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

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Post by snarfy »

bbarn wrote: post #81

Why not just use a syntax highlighting approach on the address bar? Protocol one color, domain another, slashes one color, query params another, etc.

It's a pretty obvious solution, especially to any programmer.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a situation where you have information, some more important and some less, where the correct solution is to delete the less important information. It still has importance!

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

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Post by nerdponx »

londons_explore wrote: post #113
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.

.GitHub.io is considered a top level domain, so it will still show the repo name. In the same way .co.uk is a top level domain.

Which of course allows Google to arbitrarily pick websites to privilege at the level of an actual TLD.
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