Google hides full addresses in URL bar on Chrome 85 📦

28    14 Jun 2020 15:09 by u/Stack

HN Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516088

14 comments

10 u/enefi 14 Jun 2020 15:20
\*sigh\* Not again. And of course it's because of AMP, so they can spy (censor?) more...
6 u/None 14 Jun 2020 15:39
Those who care about their privacy and freedom of speech wouldn't be using AMP links + Google Chrome.
9 u/enefi 14 Jun 2020 15:48
Well, yes, but the majority of users will be oblivious to what AMP is beyond "it loads faster". I don't know, maybe I am a too big pessimist, but I fear people still don't care much about privacy/freedom until it affects them personally.
1 u/muyuu 15 Jun 2020 13:00
The incentives of the Internet are collapsing into a few megacorps. You are right, most people are completely ambivalent to it even when aware. Of those who care, most are numb and conditioned into acceptance. And the rest of us suffer their economies of scale all the same.
1 u/ShowMeUrBobs 03 Jul 2020 13:21
I still don't understand why people are using Chrome. The settings UI is just weird and I don't see any reason to pick it over Firefox.
8 u/None 14 Jun 2020 17:23
Google needs to be broken up.
2 u/some_crypto_guy 18 Jun 2020 06:15
This x 1000.
1 u/cant_even 26 Jun 2020 00:16
> ...broken up ...will not happen. **DARPA**Google is functioning *exactly as designed*. 1. Acts as the premier data-vacuum and honey-pot to attract and compile data on 'troublemakers'. 2. Performs Ministry-of-Truth thought-shaping, gatekeeping/filtering and propaganda-dissemination while posing as a "private search-engine". 3. Now with more "Memory-Holes®" to 'keep us safe'. Google and its cousin FaCIAbook perform all these banana-republic functions at a fraction of the cost of creating a government department, which wouldn't work half as well.
4 u/fpooo 14 Jun 2020 16:13
wow thats probably even worse than the stupid redesign a few years ago.
3 u/kek 14 Jun 2020 16:28
Why?
2 u/Shapes 19 Jun 2020 01:47
I think I'll start using ungoogled chromium soon because it generally removes these stupid changes
1 u/Comrade_Comski 28 Jun 2020 02:03
Brave is based on chromium, that's another option. And then there's Firefox
1 u/None 15 Jun 2020 00:40
At least this one doesn't completely break dns but it feels like an unneeded app-ification of the internet
1 u/TotalDarkness 25 Jun 2020 03:09
seems uneeded and most people wont notice. good thing I stopped using chrome