Wow, this is epic scumbaggery. I still stick to Chrome because of all the syncing features it has across many of the devices I use, PC, Mobile, Mac and my own laptop. I remember at sometime in the past they hid URL query parameters by default, until the user clicked on the address bar.

It's so obvious this move makes it harder for people to copy-paste links, which is a common practice, and moreover misleads people when they try to know what page they're on lol.

test.com/profile or test.com/dashboard/favorites

or many other pages that look like `home pages` of websites are now going to be misinterpreted as actual home pages themselves by users because of this witchery.

If Google thinks this is a good move in that they can get people to land on websites through Search and not directly, it's an undoubtable massive deal-breaker for people like me.