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It seems that they were combating phishing sites. A comment from the field trial's code: // Hostnames using sensitive keywords (typically, brandnames) are of
by judge2020 5y ago
It seems that they were combating phishing sites. A comment from the field trial's code:
// Hostnames using sensitive keywords (typically, brandnames) are often social
// engineering, and thus should only show the registrable domain.
- bentcorner 5y agoI suppose this implies that the average non-technical user pays no attention to the contents of the address bar? Perhaps for Google to improve security metrics maybe the user needs a new canonical UI element indicating what site they're on, since to most people the address bar is just computer noise.