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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How are URLs "not usable"? Yes lots of sites use them badly, but they're the way you cite sources. Obscuring them is going to make things much worse, not better.
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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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This narrative is not helpful, and positions those of us who want to stop breakage as aligned with rather despicable people peddling a lot of nefarious ideas coded under certain people being "outsiders" and "not belonging" in this field.
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