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

[Evan Leibovitch]

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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