https://twitter.com/estark37/status/1272886878794944512
Some tweets and academic research linked on the topic from the chrome team
From: James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net>
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 17:26
To: Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard@gmail.com>
Cc: Holly Raiche <h.raiche@internode.on.net>, Technology Taskforce WG <ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, At-Large Worldwide <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [technology taskforce] Ars Technica : Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
Yup I understand, and if you spoke to the dev team they would actually say the same thing, their perspective is (Not saying I agree with it or not) that by cutting down the information
to the core “important” elements in terms of a secured domain this is actually furthering that goal. This was the same UX driver behind them marking all non HTTPS domains as insecure. Its about providing the important information vs the technical information
to end users.
From: Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 17:22
To: James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net>
Cc: Holly Raiche <h.raiche@internode.on.net>, Technology Taskforce WG <ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, At-Large Worldwide <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>
Subject: Re: [At-Large] [technology taskforce] Ars Technica : Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
James
One of the things that we are trying to engender among our end-users in our capacity-building activities is to raise their awareness of where they are getting information from and where they are landing when they want information. And checking
before they click is an important rule. Just being given a short URL is defeating the whole point of our trying to encourage responsible user practice and behaviour. More of an issue for newer less experienced users in developing countries.
Maureen
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 6:03 AM James Gannon <james@cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
I haven’t actually chatted with the chrome dev team about this before, their goal is actually to increase user experience, quantitative user data shows most people have no idea what a URL is anymore beyond potentially I go to x.com, beyond the tld many users have little to no idea of the functionality of “the rest”
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On 16 Jun 2020, at 07:47, Holly Raiche <h.raiche@internode.on.net> wrote:
If we are supposed to be looking after end users, why aren’t we outraged that we can’t see the full URL - particularly since Google is most likely trying to hide how pervasive it is in everyone’s lives
Holly
On Jun 16, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Zuck <JZuck@innovatorsnetwork.org> wrote:
Another nail...
From: At-Large <at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:48:06 PM
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Subject: [At-Large] Ars Technica : Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
"It looks like Google is trying to mess with the URL bar again. As spotted by Android Police, 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."
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