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

Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by hombre_fatal on Sunday June 14, 2020 @05:52AM (#23516384)

To try and think of an upside for the user, it might help people detect phishing by making the domain name more prominent.

I've seen phishing sites like support.google.com.8n.cn where the right side (the most important) just disappears into the /path. Though this attack is even more brilliant on mobile devices that truncate the right hand side and leave with you with "support.google.com...".

Aside, I encourage fellow HNers to purposely visit seedy websites in a VM without an ad blocker. Especially if you haven't been exposed to crappy behavior since the popup/under days. Great way to see the state of hostile web practices, like unblockable popups and fake macOS notifications.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:45AM (#23517603)

If they want the domain to be more prominent, they could also just make it... more prominent. Highlight it more and separate it.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by alexwennerberg on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:27AM (#23517847)

This is what firefox does

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by yoavm on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:06AM (#23517720)

sounds to me like "support.google.com.8n.cn" would still show up as "support.google.com..." on mobile, even when Chrome hides the URL, wouldn't it?

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