In Chrome 85, 'URL address other than domain name' may be hidden
In Google Chrome 85 scheduled to be released in September 2020, 'It may be a specification that URL after domain name is not displayed ', Android Polce dealing with Android related news reports.
Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85
According to Android Police, 'A function for hiding all but the domain name of the URL of the site you are browsing has been added to version 85 and later of Dev channel and Canary channel , which are Google Chrome developer builds'. thing.
In fact, try out this new feature. First, download and install the Canary channel from the official Google website, and type 'chrome://flags/' in the address bar. The version of Canary channel is 85.0.4173.0 at the time of article creation.
Next, enter 'Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref' in the search field, change the state of the function that came out from 'Default' to 'Enabled' and click 'Relaunch' And restart your browser.
When you access
Then, all the URLs of the articles were displayed in the address bar for a moment...
When the page was fully loaded, 'https://gigazine.net/' was displayed.
When you click the address bar, the URL of the article is displayed again, so it does not mean 'I do not know the URL of the page you are looking at', but while browsing you will not be aware of URLs other than domain names I am.
Android Police said, 'There is no official explanation as to why Google is pushing this change, but the company has so far said, 'If you are displaying the full URL, the page you are browsing is legitimate. It's going to be harder or harder,'' he said, suggesting that this new feature may be part of Google's attempt to “remove URLs and enhance security”. ..
Google believes that ``URL should be lost'' to secure the web-GIGAZINE
In addition, Livvie Lin, the developer of the browser Chromium that became the prototype of Chrome, said in a series of discussions about the design of the browser, 'When displaying the URL completely, it is an important part for judging the security of the web page. and might be impaired, ' pointed out , they have expressed concerns about possible to see the entire URL.
On the other hand, Android Police said, 'You should think that the reason why Google is trying to make URLs less important is that it also involves profits as a company. Accelerated Mobile Pages ( Open source project launched by Google ) The real intention of Google (e.g. AMP) is to keep users as much as possible within Google's content.In fact, Chrome for Android has already changed the address bar of pages related to AMP so that Google can host the page. Changing the address bar on a PC as well is part of an attempt to make URLs unimportant, which undermines the nature of a decentralized Internet. It's a big deal,' he said.
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