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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by Grustaf on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:24AM (#27472337)
If you're not technical enough to see what the specific difference is between

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=27470241&goto=item%3Fi...

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/

then why would you actually need to see the full URL? Come to that, why would _anyone_ who isn't debugging a REST API need to see the full URL?

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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by anoncake on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:06PM (#27475087)
To create a document with links. Hiding the URL makes that harder for non-technical users IME.
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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by Grustaf on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:24PM (#27475306)
But if you copy-paste it, it will copy the full URL. Even if you copy directly without tapping. I don't think there's a way to get just the domain.
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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by anoncake on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:37PM (#27475468)
I didn't expect it to be a problem, but empirically it is.
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