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."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by epitaxial on Monday June 15 2020, @12:56PM
While not "unreachable" the MPAA/RIAA forced google to tweak results so searches for torrents return streaming services instead. Hell not a day goes by I don't have to wrap quotes around a term because its ignored. Lately google has even told me (paraphrashing here) there aren't any good results for your search, so here's so random shit.