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>Showing only the domain name was considered a good way to remove the extra chaff from a complex URL and only leave the core domain visible in the URL bar. >sh
by kgeist 5y ago
>Showing only the domain name was considered a good way to remove the extra chaff from a complex URL and only leave the core domain visible in the URL bar.
>showing full URLs makes it harder for non-technical users to distinguish between legitimate and malicious (phishing) sites, many of which use complicated and long URLs in attempts to confuse users
Why not simply make the domain name visually stand out from the rest of the url?
- NorwegianDude 5y agoIt already does, but I guess they didn't think that was enough.
- yholio 5y agoYes! Bold out the domain and leave the rest of the URL in a slightly lower contrast color.
- notatoad 5y agobrowsers have tried that, and it doesn't do any good because the phishers just make a long enough domain that the bolded part gets pushed off the screen.
- parsadotsh 5y ago? just have the bolded part fixed and the long part off screen ?
- tester34 5y agohxxps://sub_sub_sub_domain.sub_sub_domain.sub_domain.help234.io/3456/546546/54645/6546/546/4 how would it look for this
- iggldiggl 5y agoFor a while, Firefox on Android used to right-align the TLD with the edge of the URL bar (plus a little bit of space, so you could tell whether the URL contained a path segment or not), so even excessively long subdomains couldn't push the main domain off-screen. I think that feature got lost again in the recent rewrite, though...
- rorykoehler 5y agoExpand the url bar to show the full domain like wrap text in cell works in excel. That would be pretty effective in showing scam urls
- mattowen_uk 5y ago+1 to this. We're now in a world where long urls are the norm. The ominbox or urlbox should be [optonally] multi lined with word-wrap. (Adds the idea to the list of things he wants in his 'Ultimate Browser' that one day he'll write.)
- tremon 5y agohxxps://...help234.io//////4
- notatoad 5y agoIsn't this basically the same solution as the one chrome was experimenting with - selectively hiding portions of the URL that they seemed irrelevant? Putting some ugly characters in it isn't really any different to just hiding them
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