1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Web browsing has changed a lot over the years. There's no more home button. We 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:11,040 browse with tabs instead of opening a new window every time. And a GeoCities 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,360 page with lots and lots of animated GIFs is no longer the pinnacle of cool. But 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:20,360 one thing that stuck around is the venerable address bar that shows you 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:23,000 exactly where you are on the wild west 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:26,400 that is the internet. However, Google has been making headlines recently due 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:31,440 to reports that they're considering fundamentally changing the address bar 8 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:37,080 by showing only the domain of the site that you're on. So instead of reddit.com 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:41,440 followed by a bunch of slashes and text showing exactly what thread or subreddit 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:45,520 you're visiting, you'll only see reddit.com. How does that make any 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,640 sense? I mean, isn't this kind of like ripping the numbers off the front of 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,840 your house and all you have to go by is the street sign on the corner? Well, one 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:58,040 big thing Google is concerned about is security. You see phishing attacks, 14 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:02,480 where users are directed to a fake page that looks like the real deal, are a 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:06,240 very common way that attackers fool people into giving up personal 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:11,360 information. And since some phishing pages look very legitimate, one of the 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:16,480 few ways to tell that you're not on the correct website is to look at the URL in 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:21,120 the address bar, specifically the domain, as attackers can easily tinker 19 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,280 with the rest of the URL to make a page look real. Spoofing a domain on the 20 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:30,160 other hand, that's much harder. So the idea is that by only showing the domain, 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,200 it will be much easier for a user to tell that they're connected to an 22 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:38,240 attacker instead of their bank or email, since they don't have to pick through a 23 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:43,320 lengthy URL to figure it out. Remember, not everyone knows which are the 24 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,880 important parts of the URL. Google has 25 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:50,640 actually already been experimenting with cleaning up the address bar in different 26 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:54,320 ways. It's been standard for a while now for the address bar to leave out the 27 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:59,880 scheme, which is the part at the beginning that either says HTTP or 28 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:02,000 HTTPS. Instead, Chrome uses a little 29 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:07,920 padlock to indicate that the page uses the more secure HTTPS protocol and gives 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:12,520 a warning when unencrypted HTTP is in use instead. And if you're browsing the 31 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:16,440 web on a mobile device, many pages use Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages 32 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,760 program or AMP, which you can learn more about up here. 33 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,360 These are pages that have been optimized for mobile so that they will load 34 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:27,640 faster. And notably, these pages are actually hosted by Google. But the 35 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:32,040 domain that you see in your address bar is the domain of whatever the original 36 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:35,880 site is, so as not to confuse the user. So they've actually been chipping away 37 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,800 at the traditional address bar for some time. 38 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,720 Of course, there's predictably been a fair amount of backlash to these 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:46,960 proposed changes. Critics are saying it's not exactly that difficult to just 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:51,320 scroll over and see what the domain is if there's a concern about phishing. 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