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> “Showing the full URL may detract from the parts of the URL that are more important to making a security decision on a webpage," Chromium software engineer Li
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
> “Showing the full URL may detract from the parts of the URL that are more important to making a security decision on a webpage," Chromium software engineer Livvie Lin said in a design document earlier this year.
I’m a software engineer, too, but I would never make such an important UX decision because I know that is not my area of expertise.
I hope they’ve gotten significant user feedback on this before rolling it out.
Personally, I hate it.
- eplanit 6y agoIt's Nanny State rationale at best, or cynical condescension -- I hate it, too. I switched from chrome back to firefox a year ago, with no loss of anything.
- solarengineer 6y agoI wonder if Livvie Lin and other Google engineers read such HN threads. What might be their internal discussions, I wonder. How do they justify such design decisions? Are they asked by someone else to figure out how to make such wierd things happen as they just do as ordered?
- avasthe 6y ago"Asked by marketing" or something like that. Fucking suits spoil everything. Engineers are in general, more ethical than suits.
- mav3rick 6y agoYes, marketing was obsessed with the URL bar all this while.
- avasthe 6y agoWrong logic. Marketing didn't see the opportunity to mislead people till now. Although in this case, it can be all about further abstracting the URL detail from end user, as I mentioned in another comment.
- mav3rick 6y agoYou are delusional and clearly have no idea about how the Chrome team works.