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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Kaze404 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:05AM (#23517711)
> If I need the whole URL visible at all times as a developer, that's an hour of chrome extension writing to make it always viewable.

Interesting. Other comments in this thread indicate that the only extension that can do this has its ID hard-coded in the url parsing code to be whitelisted.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:15AM (#23518255)
An extension can get window.location and can then paint it anywhere on the page the developer chooses, or put it in a drop down, or send it to an external service via an HTTP request and beam it to the moon, if the developer wishes.
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