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Now you know about web. Many (all?) people here (reading this shit) know. If you hear about what they are into, they are trying to get ''the next billion'' peop

by smlckz 6y ago

Now you know about web. Many (all?) people here (reading this shit) know. If you hear about what they are into, they are trying to get ''the next billion'' people into Their hands. Most of this ''next billion'' people don't have the time and/or courage to learn anything. They want to get their job done. (They will learn if they're forced to.) What these big companies are trying to do is very clear. They don't want these fools to know much about web. If these people suddenly starts learning about how web works, that'd be a disaster (for Them). Now, the address bar is just a distraction to them, nothing else. Now, if Google is removing them, let them. If the address bar is hidden, then there's less clutter. So, they'll think that it's better. (You and me know that isn't any better for us. I'd be really angry if they completely remove it.) > Why are you referring to those big companies as 'Them'? < You don't know yet?

kmeisthax 6y ago
"The next billion" was a codename for "gaining access to Chinese markets", not "fooling tech-illiterate people into becoming Google loyalists". The reason why the address bar is being tweaked in this manner isn't to hide the Internet from Internet users, it's to hide insecure parts of the URL. Only the domain name portion of a URL is actually secured by anything, and only the part closest to the right of the domain. Most people don't know or care that they need to run a set of regular expressions in their head and consult with a list of public suffixes to validate if a website is legitimate. They're just told, "Look for microsoft.com in the URL", and then they see http://123.45.67.89/~spam/microsoft.com/techsupport http://123.45.67.89/~spam/microsoft.com/techsupport and think "Well, it says Microsoft, that means it's Microsoft". It's not so much that Google doesn't want people knowing about the web, it's that people already don't know much about the web. It's not the people's job to know all of the relevant technical standards when they just want to know if a security alert in their e-mail is an actual thing they have to worry about or a phishing scam.

by smlckz 6y ago

kmeisthax 6y ago

"The next billion" was a codename for "gaining access to Chinese markets", not "fooling tech-illiterate people into becoming Google loyalists". The reason why the address bar is being tweaked in this manner isn't to hide the Internet from Internet users, it's to hide insecure parts of the URL. Only the domain name portion of a URL is actually secured by anything, and only the part closest to the right of the domain. Most people don't know or care that they need to run a set of regular expressions in their head and consult with a list of public suffixes to validate if a website is legitimate. They're just told, "Look for microsoft.com in the URL", and then they see http://123.45.67.89/~spam/microsoft.com/techsupport http://123.45.67.89/~spam/microsoft.com/techsupport and think "Well, it says Microsoft, that means it's Microsoft". It's not so much that Google doesn't want people knowing about the web, it's that people already don't know much about the web. It's not the people's job to know all of the relevant technical standards when they just want to know if a security alert in their e-mail is an actual thing they have to worry about or a phishing scam.