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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @02:23PM
it's because there's "processing" going on in the URL bar.
it seems the way they bolted "smarts" onto the original static html web server is to add the variables and stuff to the URL ... this makes for "smart" or not-static websites but also for bloated URLs and pages that can hardly be cached (by a proxy server)?
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