search engines Google Chrome to Show Only a Website’s Domain Name in the Address Bar

[BocaVision]

Google Chrome to Hide Parts of URLs in Future Update.

The reasoning is that showing a full URL may detract from the most important part of the URL – the domain name – which is crucial to knowing how secure the site is.

Article:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-chrome-to-hide-parts-of-urls-in-future-update/372085/

 

[ultradog]

Thanks I hate it

 

[Domain_Hunters]

It would only improve the value of the domain name as the name itself is shown and not the junk part.

 

[ultradog]

I don't know if it would improve any domains, but it would certainly improve the confusion of surfers, researchers, and all who would like to actually see resulting links. There is no "junk part." If you need a link you need the entire thing.

 

[Jimmysun]

Sounds reasonable I never type www. to search a site.
If suffix is also been left out then domain hack will be worthless

 

[unmark]

Ben Halpern wrote a very interesting article about Big G possible "URL display" change
https://dev.to/ben/why-people-don-t-like-when-chrome-messes-with-urls-3f01

 

[Domain_Hunters]

I don't know if it would improve any domains, but it would certainly improve the confusion of surfers, researchers, and all who would like to actually see resulting links. There is no "junk part." If you need a link you need the entire thing.

I disagree, I think hiding the urls is a part of a bigger plan to bring crypto domains into picture as crypto domains use IPFS protocol rather than HTTPS. To explain it more clearly you can type https://google.com or ipfs://google.com and they will take you to the same web page.

I think this change is to avoid that confusion. Opera android has already adopted crypto domains and IPFS protocol they are just trying to pick up the pace.