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This is the only economically rational explanation I can think of. Unless it ties into other user-abusive projects they have planned.
What about reducing phishing? Seems more obvious
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How about this idiocy? https://9to5google.com/2020/06/12/google-android-chrome-blac...
You’ll have to think and decide for yourself whether this is idiocy. I, for one, do not. The master/slave thing is stupid. The master branch in git is idiotic. Whitelist and blacklist, I can do without.
Either way though, can't really go wrong with more descriptive/functional names.
I actually wouldn't mind if the URL bar was replaced with a breadcrumb bar on some sites, like news and forums. Imagine something like Example.com > Worldnews > 2020 > 06 > 14 > Big aquatic monster spotted outside of Tokyo or forum.example.com > Sport > Football > Spain > Real Madrid It could then work like in Explorer in Windows 10, where you can press one of the breadcrumb separators and see a menu with siblings, o…
The only difference between
Example.com > Worldnews > 2020 > 06 > 14 > Big aquatic monster spotted outside Tokyo
forum.example.com > Sport > Football > Spain > Real Madrid
https://example.com/worldnews/2020/06/14/big-aquatic-monster-spotted-outside-tokyo
https://forum.example.com/sport/football/spain/real-madrid
And probably some clever logic to deal with the randomforum.php?fid=12345&tpcid=984.3&page=5 goop that is still all-too-common... :/
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Chrome is the new IE. Some sites don’t work (well) with others browsers, so people are annoyed when the browser they are forced to use does stupid things.
This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is pretty much the opposite. I also don't understand why everyone is up with pitchforks at Google on this when Apple did the same thing to URLs a while ago. I guess engineers are just as susceptible to groupthink as anyone else.
They do kind of do that. Rather than going through the consensus process for getting a web standard added, they implement it in chrome then unilaterally write a standard for themselves. See for example, the SGX (signed exchange) "standard" they pushed out.
Why not just use a syntax highlighting approach on the address bar? Protocol one color, domain another, slashes one color, query params another, etc.
I believe that Google has evaluated it very carefully from all the possible perspectives and the net outcome for them was positive, so they went with it. I assume that they care more about blurring the line between the "Google"-served internet and the regular internet than about losing 2% of Chrome's usage rate.
positive for them, not necessarily anyone else.
This is a setting, in flags (i.e. not in regular settings, the whole section in the ui is marked 'experiments') in the dev/canary builds of the browser. It defaults to off . The article (and even its slightly HN-improved title) is pure ragebait.
This sadly will ensure this keeps being the case...
I actually wouldn't mind if the URL bar was replaced with a breadcrumb bar on some sites, like news and forums. Imagine something like Example.com > Worldnews > 2020 > 06 > 14 > Big aquatic monster spotted outside of Tokyo or forum.example.com > Sport > Football > Spain > Real Madrid It could then work like in Explorer in Windows 10, where you can press one of the breadcrumb separators and see a menu with siblings, o…