I think people copy paste links all of the time. Modern link preview cards fed by og tags are a big thing, and interpreted nearly everywhere.

Mobile browser generally have a "share" functionality that can share anything to Facebook or any app that supports that easily, so that's what people would be using rather than copy and paste.

I wish I could remove this "share" button. It's unintuitive and a waste of space.

It's true the share button is unintuitive, but if you removed anything in a standard phone UI that was unintuitive you'd have about nothing left.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where designers and marketers feel it is more profitable and fashionable to distinguish between the ingroup and the outgroup, rather than to empower all users.

All my Firefox browsers do with the exception of the one on my phone and only cause I changed it to show when I scroll back up to save on screen real estate. Its all configurable. Heck... When people press F11 accidentally they start calling all their kids, nephews and grandkids all scared and confused.

Because without that address bar that tech people seem to think normal users dont use they lose their ability to reason about the web.

It will wind up similar to the missing start button on Windows.

Disclaimer: I worked at a local college and had to support students in CS and other Microsoft Office courses. They lost it whenever Microsoft took away the start button but I would tell people its still on your keyboard... Anyway also saw a lot of F11 people losing it.