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I think with the whole menagerie of green locks, green bars & EV sites replacing/cluttering the address bar (meh [0]), only showing PSL+1 [1] (which actually do
by nick238 2y ago
I think with the whole menagerie of green locks, green bars & EV sites replacing/cluttering the address bar (meh [0]), only showing PSL+1 [1] (which actually does help security, but vocal power-users hate [2])...UI/UX designers are probably loathe to mess with it again.
[0]: https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/ https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-ar...
[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/helping-people-spot-spoofs-url.html https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/helping-people-spot-spoofs...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/h11gde/how_do_i_stop_chrome_from_hiding_the_url_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/h11gde/how_do_i_sto...
[3]: https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-steps/ https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-ste...
- Dylan16807 2y agoDoes highlighting the domain name not give the boost in security? I don't mind highlighting. And it's possible to get very aggressive with highlighting. At the very least it should have a [...] and not completely hide the fact that there is a URL.