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browsers 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 ago
    hxxps://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 ago
      For 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 ago
      Expand 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 ago
      hxxps://...help234.io//////4
      • notatoad 5y ago
        Isn'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