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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by on_and_off on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:57PM (#23519271)
As long as you see the full url when you hover/click on the bar, I am all for it as well.

If find some of reactions on this ridiculously hyperbolic "biggest attack on the web in years" ? seriously ?

I get it, Google is a gigantic monster that does not necessarily act in its users best interests, but that does not mean we need to bring the pitchfork each time they launch an app update.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by hobofan on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:36AM (#23524801)
If recent history with AMP has shown anything, it is that yes, we need to bring our pitchforks every time.

And also precisely because of AMP, this might be a very dangerous step towards blurring the lines between original and AMP pages.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by dhms on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:40PM (#23522004)
On that note, I noticed recently that Google search result links (on Firefox?) get rewritten. That is, you see the actual page URL when you hover over the link, but it's changed to their own redirect URL as soon as you click it.

I'm sure they've always been tracking these search result clicks, but I think this is a somewhat new behavior, and I find it highly deceiving.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by propogandist on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:28PM (#23523481)
Chrome sends back your click 'behind the scenes', whereas Firefox does not, so Google forces you to click through their link so they can track your activity (and if you hit the back button, you also jump through their redirect)

Ublock Origin can block this behavior. Here's a posting with links to more resources on hyperlink-auditig

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#d...

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