Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
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Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#2I get emails from some banks with instructions to spot phishing. One of those is to look at the full URL in emails or on websites to know if it’s authentic or not.
For better or worse, the URL scheme is what we have to identify websites and pages. Hiding that on larger screens doesn’t make much sense. It also hinders learning for the next generation.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#3I get emails from some banks with instructions to spot phishing. One of those is to look at the full URL in emails or on websites to know if it’s authentic or not. For better or worse, the URL scheme is what we have to identify websites and pages. Hiding that on larger screens doesn’t make much sense. It also hinders learning for the next generation.
Actually, that's their argument for doing it. Most users don't understand the different bits of a URL, to know whether it's from the site they think it's from. See (huge) previous discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088
Personally, for my own purposes, I think hiding any bit of the URL is incredibly inconvenient. Already hiding the www. is seriously annoying. I will switch this new behaviour off and hope they don't remove that option.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#4Really wish they would stop trying to do this.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#5Hasn’t Safari already been doing this for ages with no issues?
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#6Hasn’t Safari already been doing this for ages with no issues?
No
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#7I get emails from some banks with instructions to spot phishing. One of those is to look at the full URL in emails or on websites to know if it’s authentic or not. For better or worse, the URL scheme is what we have to identify websites and pages. Hiding that on larger screens doesn’t make much sense. It also hinders learning for the next generation.
Actually, that's their argument for doing it. Most users don't understand the different bits of a URL, to know whether it's from the site they think it's from. See (huge) previous discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088 Personally, for my own purposes, I think hiding any bit of the URL is incredibly inconvenient. Already hiding the www. is seriously annoying. I will switch this n…
> Actually, that's their argument for doing it.
If AMP didn't exist I might be slightly more inclined to believe them.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#8I get emails from some banks with instructions to spot phishing. One of those is to look at the full URL in emails or on websites to know if it’s authentic or not. For better or worse, the URL scheme is what we have to identify websites and pages. Hiding that on larger screens doesn’t make much sense. It also hinders learning for the next generation.
Actually, that's their argument for doing it. Most users don't understand the different bits of a URL, to know whether it's from the site they think it's from. See (huge) previous discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088 Personally, for my own purposes, I think hiding any bit of the URL is incredibly inconvenient. Already hiding the www. is seriously annoying. I will switch this n…
If that's really their justification, then I wish they would take the approach that Firefox does - show the full URL but have the domain name in white and the rest of the URL in a muted color. It provides the full information as well as highlighting the most important info for spotting a phishing scheme.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#9Sigh. Now browsers are as powerful as OSes. Why do you need OSes?
Address bars? People don't need them. Google should tell you which website you're visiting is good or which is bad if they hide the address bar.
Re: Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86
#10A nice side effect for them is that it makes it less obvious you are viewing an AMP site.