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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by aquova on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:05AM (#24157361)
If that's really their justification, then I wish they would take the approach that Firefox does - show the full URL but have the domain name in white and the rest of the URL in a muted color. It provides the full information as well as highlighting the most important info for spotting a phishing scheme.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by oefrha on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:13AM (#24157461)
> show the full URL but have the domain name in white and the rest of the URL in a muted color

Which is exactly what they do at the moment.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by thadjo on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:16AM (#24157504)
wow I've never noticed this. it's pretty subtle.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by _underfl0w_ on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:58AM (#24158739)
Meaning that the need for the new hiding feature is... what, exactly?
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by untog on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:32PM (#24159997)
Presumably that a number of users still don’t get it and the value to the remaining users is very small.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by mkr-hn on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:46AM (#24157848)
I didn't notice Firefox does this before your comment. On my screen the domain is black and the rest of it is gray. Maybe it's because I don't have any kind of night mode thing on. I'm sure the colors would be inverted with that enabled.
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