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: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday June 15 2020, @02:10PM (1 child)
Hmmm … maybe you could create a counter mechanism as follows:
Or, of course, you could just use a different browser. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday June 15 2020, @05:48PM
And you think Chrome won't have sufficient cryptography to detect the substitution?