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Agreed - I think simply highlighting the data:... part of the URL with a vaguely scary colour would help.
by timruffles 10y ago
Agreed - I think simply highlighting the data:... part of the URL with a vaguely scary colour would help.
- mayoff 10y agoApple's approach in Safari is to only show the hostname in the address bar, unless the address bar has focus. This works pretty well in general (for non-power-users). Unfortunately, for a data URL, it just shows as much of the URL as fits. This may well include the phony “https://account.google.com” https://account.google.com” part of the URL and thus still mislead naive users.
- eridius 10y agoAt the very least it'll still look different, which might hopefully make the user take a closer look. For example, for normal URLs, you never seen the https:// https:// part (unless the address bar has focus). Even if you enable the advanced preference to show the full website address again, it still hides the https:// https:// part.