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The average person knows exactly what the "7384" means, they understand it as a number that uniquely identifies a house along that street
by anchpop 6y ago
The average person knows exactly what the "7384" means, they understand it as a number that uniquely identifies a house along that street
- benrbray 6y agoThe average person knows that a URL is a string that (for all intents and purposes) uniquely identifies a web page on the internet. There are some cases, like with Facebook/Google/YouTube, where they add a bunch of tracking info onto the URL, obscuring which segments of the URL are optional vs. required. But I think that's exactly the point, isn't it? To make it a lot less noticeable when you're being tracked. This change will enable a lot of URL funnybusiness that harms users.
- Spivak 6y agoI think the point is that outside of some big sites like Reddit with /r/ that over time the actual path has become completely meaningless and is just a site-specific chunk of data that sometimes happens to be a permalink useful to users but often is just a way for the site-operator to organize their stuff. This whole thing is just a reflection of the trend that URLs just mean actual.user.path.domain.tld/server/route#client/route