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If that's really their justification, then I wish they would take the approach that Firefox does - show the full URL but have the domain name in white and the rest of the URL in a muted color. It provides the full information as well as highlighting the most important info for spotting a phishing scheme.

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> show the full URL but have the domain name in white and the rest of the URL in a muted color

Which is exactly what they do at the moment.

wow I've never noticed this. it's pretty subtle.

Meaning that the need for the new hiding feature is... what, exactly?

Presumably that a number of users still don’t get it and the value to the remaining users is very small.

I didn't notice Firefox does this before your comment. On my screen the domain is black and the rest of it is gray. Maybe it's because I don't have any kind of night mode thing on. I'm sure the colors would be inverted with that enabled.

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