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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by zapzupnz on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:37AM (#23516601)
> I'm tired of this anti-Web and anti-accessibility SJW nonsense to the point that yeah, I'm ready to ditch Chrome.

It's funny what the final piece of straw is that breaks peoples' metaphorical camels' backs.

Still, better it breaks and people make the move to greener pastures — hopefully Firefox rather than Chrome-with-even-more-questionable-ethics … I don't remember the name, something like Courageous or Fearless or something like that.

(Poor camels, though)

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by rightbyte on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:46AM (#23516650)
It is the little things that piss you off. Tracking and spyware is too abstract. Hiding the street and house number in the adress bar is not.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Narishma on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:11AM (#23516790)
> It's funny what the final piece of straw is that breaks peoples' metaphorical camels' backs.

For me, it was their removal a few years ago of the option to use the Backspace key to go back to the previous page.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by apLANZ on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:11AM (#23517415)
It strikes me as not fair that comments are flagged and one line remains by being quoted.

The comment was entirely reasonable apart from the (accidental?) misuse of the TLA. But it also was anti-management and anti-talker, so lots of parasites here would have downvoted it anyway.

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