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> wide address bars wasting valuable space across the top of the screen to display what he calls “URL gibberish.” That's not "gibberish", in my opinion underst
by agluszak 4y ago
> wide address bars wasting valuable space across the top of the screen to display what he calls “URL gibberish.”
That's not "gibberish", in my opinion understanding what URLs mean (or even reading them at all!) is one of the most overlooked computer skills nowadays. If they look like gibberish that's because of:
1. Tracking parameters spam (?fbclid=qwerty)
2. Lack of knowledge that many parts of the URL can (and even should) be skipped when sharing it. So many times my non-programmer friends were astonished that you don't have to paste that ugly part!
Hiding the details instead of explaining them is a way leading to disaster! Many banking scams rely on users not paying attention to URLs.
I think that a better "innovation" would be to have the browser clean URLs from tracking bits without extensions.
- admax88qqq 4y agoThere has to be some solution to the phishing problem that doesn't require teaching the general population how to parse URLs. there's room to innovate here.
- ushakov 4y agothe issue is they have to sell this to the investors what do they answer when investors ask a typical: "What makes you different from competition?" their answer is: "We don't waste valuable space across the top of the screen to display URL gibberish" the article is for business people, who could potentially invest into their Series A round, not for us tech people
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- gman83 4y agoAt the same time, I think that more than 90% of people that I know have absolutely no idea how to read a URL, and are not going to learn. I think that just showing the domain for them wouldn't be so bad. I don't think I'm the target audience for this browser.