Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr...
by onion2k on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:30AM
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That's technically correct, but as far as the security of the website is concerned example.com, example.com/~eviluser/uh-oh, and example.com/nefarious/sub/directory/pretending/to/be/google.com/ are all exactly the same. The issue Google are trying to "fix" is making it more clear that the domain the user sees is what they're really looking for. If a user on a website is being evil it's up to the website owner to stop that, not Google. Google are trying to protect people against evil website owners (or so they say...).
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