WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.080 Web browsing has changed a lot over the years. There's no more home button. We 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.040 browse with tabs instead of opening a new window every time. And a GeoCities 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.360 page with lots and lots of animated GIFs is no longer the pinnacle of cool. But 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:20.360 one thing that stuck around is the venerable address bar that shows you 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:23.000 exactly where you are on the wild west 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:26.400 that is the internet. However, Google has been making headlines recently due 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:31.440 to reports that they're considering fundamentally changing the address bar 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 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:41.440 followed by a bunch of slashes and text showing exactly what thread or subreddit 00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:45.520 you're visiting, you'll only see reddit.com. How does that make any 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:48.640 sense? I mean, isn't this kind of like ripping the numbers off the front of 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 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:58.040 big thing Google is concerned about is security. You see phishing attacks, 00:00:55.720 --> 00:01:02.480 where users are directed to a fake page that looks like the real deal, are a 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:06.240 very common way that attackers fool people into giving up personal 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:11.360 information. And since some phishing pages look very legitimate, one of the 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 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:21.120 the address bar, specifically the domain, as attackers can easily tinker 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 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:30.160 other hand, that's much harder. So the idea is that by only showing the domain, 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:34.200 it will be much easier for a user to tell that they're connected to an 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:38.240 attacker instead of their bank or email, since they don't have to pick through a 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:43.320 lengthy URL to figure it out. Remember, not everyone knows which are the 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:45.880 important parts of the URL. Google has 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:50.640 actually already been experimenting with cleaning up the address bar in different 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 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:59.880 scheme, which is the part at the beginning that either says HTTP or 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:02.000 HTTPS. Instead, Chrome uses a little 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:07.920 padlock to indicate that the page uses the more secure HTTPS protocol and gives 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:12.520 a warning when unencrypted HTTP is in use instead. And if you're browsing the 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:16.440 web on a mobile device, many pages use Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:19.760 program or AMP, which you can learn more about up here. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.360 These are pages that have been optimized for mobile so that they will load 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:27.640 faster. And notably, these pages are actually hosted by Google. But the 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:32.040 domain that you see in your address bar is the domain of whatever the original 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:35.880 site is, so as not to confuse the user. So they've actually been chipping away 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:38.800 at the traditional address bar for some time. 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:42.720 Of course, there's predictably been a fair amount of backlash to these 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.960 proposed changes. Critics are saying it's not exactly that difficult to just 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:51.320 scroll over and see what the domain is if there's a concern about phishing. And 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:56.080 hiding URLs has the potential to make the internet less decentralized and 00:02:53.720 --> 00:03:00.520 transparent, since the idea of the individual URL would become more 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:04.680 irrelevant as we instead rely on search engines more and more to get us to the 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:09.800 page that we need. And hey, wait a second. Doesn't Google happen to run the 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:14.440 most popular search engine in the world? What a coinkidink. Before we get too 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:18.880 cynical about the changes, you'll still be able to show the whole URL by just 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:23.840 clicking on or hovering over the address bar. And it's not fully rolled out yet. 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:28.400 Currently, the hide the URL feature is only present as a flag in pre-release 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:33.120 versions of Chrome. 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