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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ldng on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:12PM (#23519398)
Well I'm exhausted by UI/UX engineers oversimplifying things that are inherently complex. To the point to not really helping people simplifying their work and totally hindering advanced user. There is a reason industrial UI usually don't suffer this, because complex interfaces are there for a reason.

You know what else is "a UI space resource hog" on the web ? Advertising. And I'm sorry but "wasted" space is generally much bigger. So, no, I'm not ready to loose my address bar for bigger ads.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:33PM (#23519550)
There's a reason most commodity software doesn't adhere to industrial UI standards.

Chrome is well into the commodity software scale, and one should assume its UI decisions will lean in the direction of maximum utility for the most users.

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