> Hiding information from users is never a good thing! Counterpoint: hiding information from users is often a good thing. Especially when that means reducing t

> Hiding information from users is never a good thing! Counterpoint: hiding information from users is often a good thing. Especially when that means reducing the amount of information a user has to process to determine if a URL is legit. The URL path, query and fragment are the private business of whatever authority controls the URL. If an end user has to consult the path, query or fragment to make a decision about whether the URL is okay, the website has got it wrong. > imagine many tabs all with the same only-hostname in the address bar --- the constant feeling of "where am I, really?" made it very unpleasant and disorienting If I tried to navigate tabs by full URL I'd already have that feeling. I can tell from the current URL that I'm replying to a post - but I can tell that from looking at the page itself, and the page title - but 15659459 doesn't tell me very much about what post I'm replying to. Certainly, if I have multiple comments open I don't remember which is why by their id. The same applies on a great many websites. As far as I remember, the only websites where I do navigate by "hacking" the URL are ones I've made, or it's done for the purpose of deceiving people about what the URL leads to: e.g. changing the product name in an Amazon URL. For keeping track of where you are, rather than displaying the full URL, I think it'd be better to move breadcrumbs into the browser chrome - https://i.imgur.com/d821tXu.png https://i.imgur.com/d821tXu.png instead of https://i.imgur.com/UufKDoS.png https://i.imgur.com/UufKDoS.png (Relatedly, I've no idea which parts of an Amazon URL are "safe" to share. A UI fix to the URL problem should also include the ability for Amazon to tell the browser how to make a safely shareable link.)