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

Maureen Hilyard maureen.hilyard at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 20:28:15 UTC 2020


You and me both, Roberto.


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM Roberto Gaetano <
roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com> wrote:

> How is this linked with DoH (DNS over HTTP)?
> I mean, if an application is choosing to use a specific DNS server and the
> browser hides the real address, how do I know where I have *really* landed
> on?
> Or is it just my paranoiac half that makes me suspicious?
> Cheers,
> Roberto
>
> On 16.06.2020, at 22:02, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
>
> And... there is Firefox. And Chromium. Thankfully Chrome isn't the only
> game in town. Even other browsers that use the Chrome rendering engine
> (such as Microsoft Edge) don't need to take their UE cues from Google.
>
> I switched to Firefox ages ago because of a greater interest in not being
> tracked, something in which Google has a financial interest but the Mozilla
> Foundation does not.
>
> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch / @el56
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 15:56, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well that doesn't sound too bad then.. and it is an experiment.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:51 AM Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google <
>> tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Google confirms experiment to remove full address from URL bar in
>>> Chrome, details opt-out mechanism
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/15/google-confirms-experiment-to-remove-full-address-from-url-bar-in-chrome-details-opt-out-mechanism/
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "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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