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Google wants nobody to know URLs exist, and that everyone is forced to search Google for everything, even sites they know, and there visit fake AMP-sites portra

Google wants nobody to know URLs exist, and that everyone is forced to search Google for everything, even sites they know, and there visit fake AMP-sites portraying to be from a server they are not, all while Google tracks every single keystroke you make. This is just another tiny step in that overall plan, and it is 100% evil. Don’t waste your time trying to talk the Chrome-team into reason. You are not their customer, nor their employer. They will not listen. If you don’t like what Google is doing, use other products. Firefox, DDG, iPhones etc.

type0 7y ago
General population already thinks that the Web has been taken over by Google and that "social media" is Facebook and Twitter.
joshuamorton 7y ago
Firefox and Safari already made similar changes. Safari made the exact same change, and Firefox hides http:// http:// already, but not https:// https://, chrome is just using a lock icon to represent the https:// https:// instead of the actual string.
- zzo38computer 7y ago
  As mentioned, at least this setting can be disabled in Firefox. (I don't know if this is possible in Chrome.)
  - wildrhythms 7y ago
    Since nobody replied, I mentioned this in another comment that you can revert this in chrome://flags https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631676
- josteink 7y ago
  Firefox doesn’t hide the WWW subdomain. The domain-name remains unmangled.
notatoad 7y ago
>iPhones yeah, if you don't like this change switch to a browser that has behaved this way for years
- josteink 7y ago
  It doesn’t hide www. And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know.
  - aianus 7y ago
    > And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know. More like thin wrappers around Webkit. You can actually install alternate browsers on Android, you know.
    - josteink 7y ago
      But the thin wrappers shows the real url. On Android Google will spy on everything you do, no matter which browser you install.
- pessimizer 7y ago
  From the company whose mobile line of business started with an music player that hid file extensions. I can still remember when I first started running into people that didn't know that the songs on their ipod were files. Certainly builds a "moat."

type0 7y ago

General population already thinks that the Web has been taken over by Google and that "social media" is Facebook and Twitter.

joshuamorton 7y ago

Firefox and Safari already made similar changes. Safari made the exact same change, and Firefox hides http:// http:// already, but not https:// https://, chrome is just using a lock icon to represent the https:// https:// instead of the actual string.

zzo38computer 7y ago
As mentioned, at least this setting can be disabled in Firefox. (I don't know if this is possible in Chrome.)
- wildrhythms 7y ago
  Since nobody replied, I mentioned this in another comment that you can revert this in chrome://flags https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631676 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631676
josteink 7y ago
Firefox doesn’t hide the WWW subdomain. The domain-name remains unmangled.

notatoad 7y ago

>iPhones yeah, if you don't like this change switch to a browser that has behaved this way for years

josteink 7y ago
It doesn’t hide www. And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know.
- aianus 7y ago
  > And you can install alternate browsers on iPhones, you know. More like thin wrappers around Webkit. You can actually install alternate browsers on Android, you know.
  - josteink 7y ago
    But the thin wrappers shows the real url. On Android Google will spy on everything you do, no matter which browser you install.
pessimizer 7y ago
From the company whose mobile line of business started with an music player that hid file extensions. I can still remember when I first started running into people that didn't know that the songs on their ipod were files. Certainly builds a "moat."