Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by madeofpalk on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:05AM (#24158846)

I don't think this is true at all. If anything, this change actually hurts AMP because now none of the original host url is visible at first.

I don't like browsers that do this, its the first thing I turn off in Safari, but how does Apple manage to get away hiding the full path under positive intent, but when Google does it its because they're evil?

I think it's pretty fair to say that the wider population of users aren't very good at determining which part of the URL is the authority, so any change to help with that can only be positive imho.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by saagarjha on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:59AM (#24159624)

> I don't like browsers that do this, its the first thing I turn off in Safari, but how does Apple manage to get away hiding the full path under positive intent, but when Google does it its because they're evil?

I don’t like it either, but I assume the difference arises from the fact that Google would benefit from deemphasizing the URL and has done work already in faking it, while Apple probably does it because it looks clean and it thinks its users will be tricked by apple.com.help-virus-14682825821&824826.

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