Why do mainstream browsers obfuscate the full URL from the address bar now...

Why do mainstream browsers obfuscate the full URL from the address bar now? Are they trying to pull an AOL on us and obscure domain names?
You literally have to go into the secret area of VIP quality settings to disable this behavior.
What's the point of doing something like this? What are they hoping to achieve?

What are you talking about?

Browsers don't show the full URL anymore. Is that simple enough for you?

firefox-esr doesnt have this problem

Not Firefox nor Chrome do this

They both fucking do this by default, idiot. Update your browsers.

Wrong

Only for non-https sites and the only part they "hide" is https:// and that's it.

How is this obfuscation?

Because devs have gone full retard. I hate that they hide the http/https. Last time the browser would not let me enter a http site and was defaulting to the https site even though it was broken.

Correction, its http:// they hide on insecure sites.

because the average user is a retard unable to parse URIs

You must be on wangblows. Hah

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Only Apple devices shorten the visible url, until you click/focus on the address bar

PAY DENBTS

This is one of the most retarded fucking threads I've ever seen on this board.

...what part does it hide?

You either changed the settings or will get it in a further update. Nightly and Canary sure as hell default to hiding the protocol.

Autism.

Yeah, those"which phone" discussions and "gurlz can code 2" threads are the epitome of relevancy.

you have to go back

flag on the moon, how did it get there?

It shortens the full url to just the main domain. Looks cleaner. OP is a retard because full url is shown on click

Lol this.

>it does a thing i don't expect

BOTNEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

That's Greece, dude's menu is in Spanish.
Do you even Sup Forums?

>full url is shown on click
Not anymore, bitchtits. And how in the fuck does that look cleaner? More like it looks inaccurate.

stop using edge senpai

My current chromium doesn't hide anything. It replaces the protocol with a sign though. Not like it matters.

>doesn't hide anything
>It replaces the protocol with a sign
You have some twisted concept of 'hiding' there, captain fuckface.

Works fine for me

no u, autismo

It preserves all information...

>it hides something
>it doesn't it just replaces it!
Brain damage aside, it puzzles me as to why people would defend this behavior at all.

Do you have the autism?

No. Do you have down's syndrome?

op you entered a board full of autists ready to yell botnet at the slightest unexpected behavior and the thing that got you annoyed was so insignificant that nobody else mirrorred your annoyance congrations

How did you know I have bitchtits?

Hiding URLs isn't insignificant, it effectively leads to potential exploits. What if they decide to hide the top level domain next? Or if they disregard ICANN completely and start making up their own addresses, like AOL did in the late 90's?
The board isn't full of autists, it's full of gaymer retards who would rather discuss what color of phone goes better with their hair dye than anything resembling technology.

fucking hell the pictogram carries the same information as protocol
do you really need to see the almost-constant "http(s)://"?
Pictogram does the same thing

>fucking hell the pictogram carries the same information as protocol
It does not, you impossibly dumb cunt. There is absolutely no practical reason to hide the protocol.

AHAHAHAHA

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Interesting
Sometimes
Mysterious

There is: saving space and avoiding users' confusion. AND IT FUCKING DOES CARRY ALL INFO! HTTP gets a blank page picture, and https gets a padlock. FTP displays as-is. There are only 3 URI protocols supported by my chromium anyways.