> I just don't get how the smart people at Google allow this to happen. We'll probably never get a true answer to this, can only speculate. This appears to be

> I just don't get how the smart people at Google allow this to happen. We'll probably never get a true answer to this, can only speculate. This appears to be group(s)think in action, where the involved parties feel justified, even entitled, to make this change for the 'betterment of the web'. Think back to when the Chrome/ium team decided to hide 'www' and 'm' from URLs and had to roll back that decision pretty quickly. I cannot find the post where an engineer indicated that in their internal discussions this seemed like a good idea. Given the massive browser share that Chrome/ium commands, the decisions being made around tampering with the address bar and making it behave in a way that does not reflect the underlying protocols, would not occur in a team with healthy debate around the merits and dangers of such actions - so I believe that debate is either not happening or simply being suppressed at multiple levels within the organisation.