{"id":6796,"date":"2021-06-14T10:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:55:19","slug":"google-chrome-to-halt-url-bar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-chrome-to-halt-url-bar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome To Halt URL Bar Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Android Police, Google is killing an idea that began about a year ago after Chrome began experimenting with ways to strip the URL displayed in the address bar to only the domain name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of &#8220;https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/2021\/06\/14\/55-of-employees-experienced-damage-to-workforce-health\/,&#8221; the address would only show &#8220;technewsday.com,&#8221; making it harder for users to see where they are in the site directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Google engineer Emily Stark initially stated at the start of the project in June 2020 that the company was experimenting with a simplified URL display &#8220;to understand if it helps users identify malicious websites more accurately&#8221;, she recently examined that the &#8220;simplified domain experiment&#8221; will now be deleted from the company&#8217;s codebase because &#8220;This experiment didn&#8217;t move relevant security metrics, so we&#8217;re not going to launch it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/google-chrome-ends-its-war-on-address-bar-urls-for-now-at-least\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to stop experimenting with ways to strip the URL displayed in the address bar to just the domain name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}