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Sorry, but that is just such a bullshit quote. They want to have control on identity and that's it. URL as the article say stands for Uniform Resource Locators and is about locating resources, not proving identity.

They are trying to solve an issue which isn't even part of the responsibility of the URL. The domain is the truthteller here. If you can find a way to display to the user what actual domain he or she is on,you have solved the issue.

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Yes, that's why I characterized it as "not displaying them to most users". They aren't proposing getting rid of URLs or changing how they are used in retrieving pages or etc., they just might stop showing them to users because people mostly don't get much information from them.

But the issue is that many also get much information from them. It's like removing info about air pressure in your car tires because "most people don't understand it".

I don't understand why we should view computer illiteracy as something we must cater to. You don't have to know everything about how URL works, but being able to change ?page=1 to ?page=2 and knowing what is probably going to happen and similar tasks is knowledge probably needed today and should be teached.

Why does people never learn this? If you teach people to be uneducated this is exactly what they will become.

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