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Google Resumes its Senseless Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85

posted by chromas on Monday June 15 2020, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the AOL dept.

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https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/

Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's address bar, because apparently long web addresses are scary and evil. Despite the public backlash that came after every previous attempt, Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name.

A few new feature flags have appeared in Chrome's Dev and Canary channels (V85), which modify the appearance and behavior of web addresses in the address bar. The main flag is called "Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref" which hides everything in the current web address except the domain name. For example, "https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/07/lenovo-ideapad-flex-5-chromebook-review/" is simply displayed as "androidpolice.com."

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:54PM (#1008108)

    I hate to be ... cynical, but I used to do the same thing. Every profile had its own set up with finely configured settings for each add-on. So for instance, noscripts in profile A would allow scripts from site A, but not site B, whereas noscripts in profile B /would/ allow scripts from site B, yet not from site A, etc. etc.
    But it gets to you, it really does. These fuckers know how to grind you down until the operational and mental cost of maintaining this becomes too much to bear: as an example: both site A and B use reCaptcha (which should burn in the hottest fire), but that uses google which I do NOT want to whitelist (on noscripts, or uMatrix, ...) so every single time, I have to go through 3-4-5 reloads of the site, tweaking the temporary settings of the add-ons just to get a website to work. Now this doesn't mean that any of this website behavior is acceptable at all, but it *is* their behavior, so here we are, and I have/had to deal with it.

    I went from FF to Brave because of all this (yes, Brave, which I think is one of the better Chromium-clones despite all the FUD posted here - maybe Opera is a bit better, but I'm not sure about that). In the end, it just grind you dooooowwwnnnn and you just want shit to work.
    It's all fun and games being a luddite, but at some point you just go "fuck this shit" and adapt.

    Unfortunately, it's feudalism all over again, let us, the robber-barons/feudal lords, protect you, for we know what is best for you.

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