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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Sunday June 14, 2020 @05:22AM (#23516218)
It makes their serving of AMP less transparent, which is a good thing for them. I guess.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by anticristi on Sunday June 14, 2020 @05:34AM (#23516287)
I'm starting to wonder when the EU will raise the anti-trust flag. It seems obvious to me that Google tries to use it's start page market dominance to become the only webpage served on the Internet.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by hk__2 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:45AM (#23516965)
No, they already did that last year: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/16/amp-pages-will-now-...
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by nerdponx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:38AM (#23516614)
This is the only economically rational explanation I can think of. Unless it ties into other user-abusive projects they have planned.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ubercow13 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:11AM (#23516791)
What about reducing phishing? Seems more obvious
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by guerrilla on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:55AM (#23517334)
Why assume good intentions when economic incentives (which we already know they have) already explain it?
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ubercow13 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:43AM (#23517582)
What are the other browsers' intentions then, who are doing almost the same thing? What about the economic incentive of generally increasing trust in the web and ecommerce, which is highly relevant to their core business?

Also consider the sibling comment about AMP - looks like they already have special behaviour for that so this is barely relevant.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by guerrilla on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:54AM (#23517326)
Why assume good intentions when profit and lock-in already explain it?
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