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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by gsich on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#24159398)
Safari has little to none marketshare.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by jakeva on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:32PM (#24159989)
17% is little to none?
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by gsich on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:55PM (#24160275)
More like 3% on the desktop. Mobile is not really relevant here. The URL bar on those devices is obviously shorter to begin with because of less display width. So just showing the hostname is not much different than showing the hostname + 5 characters.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by hombre_fatal on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:37PM (#24160800)
Reminds me of a great phishing attack I saw the other year:

"https://support.google.com.verify.x82loo2a.com"

Of course, in a tiny url bar, you'd just see "https://support.google.com.veri".

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