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

[Maureen Hilyard]

James
One of the things that we are trying to engender among our end-users in our
capacity-building activities is to raise their awareness of where they are
getting information from and where they are landing when they want
information. And checking before they click is an important rule. Just
being given a short URL is defeating the whole point of our trying to
encourage responsible user practice and behaviour. More of an issue for
newer less experienced users in developing countries.

Maureen

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 6:03 AM James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net>
wrote:

> I haven’t actually chatted with the chrome dev team about this before,
> their goal is actually to increase user experience, quantitative user data
> shows most people have no idea what a URL is anymore beyond potentially I
> go to x.com, beyond the tld many users have little to no idea of the
> functionality of “the rest”
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 16 Jun 2020, at 07:47, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
>  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:
>
> Another nail...
>
> Jonathan Zuck
> Executive Director
> Innovators Network Foundation
> www.InnovatorsNetwork.org <http://www.innovatorsnetwork.org/>
>
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> *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
>
> "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/,"
> the address bar would show "arstechnica.com."
>
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/
>
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