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

Tue Jun 16 21:56:43 UTC 2020

We've been asked to start thinking about ICANN69 now.
I'll get Gisella to set up a wiki space so we can start getting ideas down,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:49 AM Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net>
wrote:

> Clearly, something for a TTF piece of work, webinar - and maybe the next
> policy session for the ‘Hamburg’ meeting?
>
> Holly
>
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 6:28 AM, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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