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looorg writes:

Google is going to stop hiding urls in Chrome. Apparently it didn't pan out the way they wanted it to. I guess they wanted to make it less complicated or less confusing for the users but it turned out to be a security issue?

Google Chrome will once again show a website's full URL:

Google has now punted and admitted the idea didn't work as it expected. "Deleted simplified domain experiment," wrote tech lead Emily Stark. "This experiment didn't move relevant security metrics, so we're not going to launch it."

The change is now live in Chrome 91, with only the "https://" hidden by default. However, it's easy to show that as well simply by right- or ctrl-clicking on the omnibox and selecting "always show full URLs," as Android Police pointed out.

Details in bug report update.

Original Submission

1. "looorg" - https://soylentnews.org/~looorg/
2. "Google Chrome will once again show a website's full URL" - https://www.engadget.com/chrome-will-once-again-show-a-websites-full-url-100519595.html
3. "bug report update" - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1090393#c75
4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=49225

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