URLs aren't usable, but people are forced to rely on them for so much -- browsing, security, sharing. Expect to see changes to how Chrome displays identity in the coming year. @emschec @estark37https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/ …
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People don't look at them when they ought to. And when they do, they don't know which part to look at. We are exploring ways of drawing attention to the right identity indicators at the right times.
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‘We’ = a small elite group of young elite engineers with very little historical knowledge of the fantastic decentralised empowering nature of the URL
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Youre right, we shouldn't design for ourselves. That's why our first step is months of user research!
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It's easy for research to focus on solving what doesn't work, and ignore the (equally if not more important) aspect of *not breaking what does work*.
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agree with Rich. sounds like the problem is not enough education. teach kids how to browse, code, use social media, practice internet safety, etc. then they’ll grow up and make the web better. sometimes a “problem” can’t be “fixed” with a cool new browser feature. it takes time.
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Solving problems via education doesn't scale. But there are better approaches that do.
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that may be so, but solutions via education are long-lasting. i’m a big-picture, bottom-up kind of thinker.
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No, they're irrelevant by the time they're finished. It'd be like educating kids about the risks of buying from door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen.
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exactly
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