This is so unfriendly to users. I don't understand the push to obscure URLs. They are sometimes hiding the URLs in search results also which is infuriating. One more reason to use DuckDuckGo.
Or when you click in on some mobile and the whole url disappears and you just wanted to change part of the url.
Yes Google there are still people that want hackable urls, I remember when that was something they pushed, clean urls that make sense so you can type in where you are going.
AMP might be the thing that actually brings anti-trust, so not needed and very anti-competitive using their monopoly position to stifle competition and innovation rather than extend innovation and compete on product. Google should reward fast sites not band-aid it with an anti-competitive AMP. AMP also creates lots more work for content companies and it is only useful for Google. Essentially content companies are doing Google's work for them.
McKinsey and the management consultants have taken over large swaths of Google with stuff like this and AMP.
Here's hoping some pirate product people/engineers put up a flag and start returning to product over management metrics.
1. Enable chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls
2. Right click the address bar
3. Select 'Always show full URLs'
Instead of seeing: news.ycombinator.com You'll now see: https://news.ycombinator.com
I made a Tell HN post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322705
The long dark days of url shrouding and obscuring are over. We won the battle.
Google wants to be the gatekeeper of the internet. It wants to be the middleman between everything you do online. Might you be using Google Chrome right now? Or Android? ;0