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To play the devil's advocate, Apple's Safari has been hiding full addresses for quite a while, without having any direct benefit as a company as far as I know.
by d99kris 6y ago
To play the devil's advocate, Apple's Safari has been hiding full addresses for quite a while, without having any direct benefit as a company as far as I know.
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- rimliu 6y agohmm, the only thing it hides for me is the protocol, and that one is easy understand: a padlock shown: https. "Not Secure":http.
- bonestamp2 6y agoTo get what you're seeing, I had to turn on the option to see the full URL. Otherwise it just shows the domain. That was several years ago though, so maybe it's no the default anymore. I get it though, most people really only care about the domain and in fact, trimming everything else makes the actual domain easier to spot when it's not the domain you wanted, such as in a phishing attempt.
- wolco 6y agoApple has it's own goals of hiding technical information from the user.
- gsich 6y agoSafari has little to none marketshare.
- jakeva 6y ago17% is little to none?
- gsich 6y agoMore like 3% on the desktop. Mobile is not really relevant here. The URL bar on those devices is obviously shorter to begin with because of less display width. So just showing the hostname is not much different than showing the hostname + 5 characters.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoReminds me of a great phishing attack I saw the other year: "https://support.google.com.verify.x82loo2a.com" https://support.google.com.verify.x82loo2a.com" Of course, in a tiny url bar, you'd just see "https://support.google.com.veri" https://support.google.com.veri".
- dpcx 6y agoIt only does this on mobile, as far as I can tell; using desktop Safari as my primary browser, I'm not seeing this.
- spideymans 6y agoIt does it on desktop too. You must’ve disabled in it settings