[technology taskforce] [At-Large] Ars Technica : Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path

[Holly Raiche]

If we are supposed to be looking after end users, why aren’t we outraged that we can’t see the full URL - particularly since Google is most likely trying to   hide how pervasive it is in everyone’s lives

Holly

> On Jun 16, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck at innovatorsnetwork.org> wrote:
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> Another nail... 
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> Jonathan Zuck
> Executive Director
> Innovators Network Foundation
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> From: At-Large <at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:48:06 PM
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> Subject: [At-Large] Ars Technica : Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
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> "It looks like Google is trying to mess with the URL bar again. As spotted by Android Police <https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/>, new flags in the developer versions of the popular browser now want to hide the URL path. So for an article like this one, instead of "https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/, <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/,>" the address bar would show "arstechnica.com <http://arstechnica.com/>."
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> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/ <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/>
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