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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 austincheney »

krona wrote: post #3
Dicey84 wrote: post #2

Can see this being exploited in some fashion for phishing attacks..

Can you be specific?

This change visibly hides subdomains. On some domains subdomains represent different sites from different unrelated authors. That being said it is of trivial effort to clone a site to capture sensitive information hosted under any subdomain with a valid HTTPS certificate.

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

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Post by sdan »

Tehnix wrote: post #5

So Chrome is only showing the domain part now? Just like Safari has been for a long time? Personally I quite like it. From what I understand the main goal is to make phishing attacks more clear to the user, since this is ultimately only a thing the end-user can protect against. Removing the noise definitely helps for that. Having had it like this in Safari for a long time, I must say I greatly prefer this over the ol…

Safari has an option to include the full URL. As a developer, I need the full URL so I turn on the option. If Chrome by some miracle actually goes through with this, I'll try to see if I can get around it (because at the end of the day, everyone uses chrome and chrome dev tools are by far the best).

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

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Post by enlyth »

At 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.

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Post by curiousgal »

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.

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

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Post by jpxw »

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.

Also any of the many sites where content for different people is hosted under example.com/~username/content
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