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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by IX-103 on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:19PM (#24160581)
Is it really a company-wide strategy to manipulate the URL? The Chrome change was based on user studies that showed that people do not understand URLs.

The days of URLs as a data access key are gone. So many other things (cookies, etc) go into controlling what pages show that what was originally a 1:1 mapping between URL and content is now a many to many mapping. I'm not saying that's how it should be, but that's the web we live in now.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by RonanTheGrey on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:21PM (#24161387)
Doesn't matter if they understand it or not. It's the one and only barrier between you and malicious actors, or you and a monopolist. And oh look there's Google, attacking the one thing that protects the world from their ownership of the web.

People might not understand how a seat belt works, it's still there and we still use them.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by FillardMillmore on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:34PM (#24160763)
Do you happen to have a link to those studies?
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