I am definitely dismissive of the benefits of work that obfuscates or conceals the most concrete piece of information I require to know what site I am on: the c

I am definitely dismissive of the benefits of work that obfuscates or conceals the most concrete piece of information I require to know what site I am on: the complete URL, including schema, that I have been looking at on every single web page I visit since the early 90's. IMO when a browser vendor does something like this, I'm not in a rush to sit there and read all their blog posts and give huge consideration to yet another megacorp imposing their will upon me. I just don't want my URL hidden, and I will definitely turn off features like this where possible. (n.b. I don't use Chrome, so its irrelevant for me) Interesting. http "not secure", but I bet every piece of malware delivered to a user's machine via browser exploit was delivered on an https URL... BTW, you make some assertions about the feature being more useful for average users -- can you provide any links/documents about this? I am very skeptical, though you are under no obligation to convince me (don't spend the time finding link(s) unless you specifically feel like it). I'd be curious, because I even feel doubtful that there's any solid measurement indicating hiding part of the URL has actually benefited anyone.