Domains are only a meaningful root of trust if they're tightly controlled by a small set of people. A piece of content being on 'news.ycombinator.com' or 'githu

Domains are only a meaningful root of trust if they're tightly controlled by a small set of people. A piece of content being on 'news.ycombinator.com' or 'github.com' literally tells me nothing about how trustworthy it is. In the case of yc, i have to look at the poster, and the actual content, and the replies to it. For github, I have to look at things like who posted the code and which repository it's in - both things that are displayed in the URL, oddly enough... Google's URLs are of course long strings of useless hex/base64 garbage, so it's natural that they want to hide them.