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Isn't that the point of this change, only showing the domain to prevent phishing?

• takeda 6y ago
  No, they already were doing that by using color to make the other parts less prominent. There is no good explanation to to this change than making people rely more on Google search.
  • shadowgovt 6y ago
    That's a pretty big leap, especially since users can change Chrome's search engine. There are a couple of reasons they could be making this change highlighted in these threads.
    • takeda 6y ago
      It's the default, and most people who would change it (let's be honest, for privacy reasons) would switch to something like Firefox.
      • shadowgovt 6y ago
        It still feels like you dove into the deep-end of the data collection conspiracy pool before considering other more-likely explanations, like "They have the information now to know that, in general, using color to make the rest of the bar less prominent wasn't sufficient to minimize users feeding data to malicious sites."