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 mrweasel on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:08AM (#23516453)

I honestly don’t think people are paying attention to the URL bar, at least not the people this feature it trying to protect.

If it looks like Google.com, then it Google.com. The logo even says so.

It’s a dumbing down of the internet, in an attempt to help the average user, but it won’t work and you’re just making life harder for those who know just a bit more then average.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by nerdponx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:34AM (#23516581)

That's bullshit, it's not an attempt to help anybody but Google.

What better way to keep people on AMP pages, than to make them so ignorant as to not even know how to tell the difference?

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by chiefsucker on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:13AM (#23516799)

What the heck? A regular user doesn’t understand or care what the technical difference between a “regular” page and AMP is. I wouldn’t call this ignorance per se.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by choeger on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:56AM (#23517034)

Not knowing and not caring is the very definition of ignorance.

Sometimes I wonder if feudalism must have felt like this from the perspective of the noble people. Will there be a dark age followed by enlightenment? Because right now we seem to encounter self-imposed nonage.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by RHSeeger on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:44AM (#23517592)

This is patently false. I talk to non-tech "regular" users all the time that despise AMP.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by chiefsucker on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:19AM (#23527599)

This is patently false. I talk to non-tech "regular" users all the time that don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention AMP and its issues.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Wistar on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:07PM (#23518789)

Count me among them.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ehnto on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:58PM (#23519275)

Just because they don't care doesn't mean exploiting their ignorance is okay. I don't know that I agree with the GP that this is a targeted move to get AMP to slide under the radar, but if it is we should totally care. AMP undermines the fabric of the web. Just wait for the day that Google starts serving AMP for sites that aren't even configured for it. When they serve an AMP page, they are doing more than being a middle man, they are controlling the traffic and the display of the site, and the user is none the wiser. Google penalizes you for doing the same thing, specifically because it's nefarious.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Mirioron on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:20AM (#23518305)

I'm pretty sure regular people can tell the difference between a regular page and an AMP page. The AMP page simply doesn't work right and it's quite difficult to miss that.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by runawaybottle on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#23519868)

Also you have to go out of your way to share the original link so people know what site and descriptive link you are sharing.

AMP adds 2-3 additional actions to that user flow.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by e1ghtSpace on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:27AM (#23516874)

Whats wrong with AMP pages?

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by imglorp on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:37AM (#23516925)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703345

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by hckr_news on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:34AM (#23517534)

I don’t click on a search result to read google.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by paulcole on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:45AM (#23518527)

Why do you click on a search result?

For me, it’s to get information. Why do I care what format the information is presented in?

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by gsich on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:34AM (#23517228)

They exist.

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