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Comment by cdmckay | Hacker News Reader

Hasn’t Safari already been doing this for ages with no issues?

The difference is that Google likely has ulterior motives with this change, whereas in Safari, it's purely aesthetic.

Edit: I've just tried it in Chrome (enable [0] and [1] or [2]), and it's a disorienting user experience. As a matter of fact, I also just tried it in Safari, where I have similar complaints (but, again, it's easy to disable there).

[0]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-sometimes-elide-to-registrable-domain

[1]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-reveal-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-hover

[2]: chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-path-query-and-ref-on-interaction

Yes, it has been doing it for ages, both on macOS and iOS.

Safari does something like this (showing the full url only when you select it), and it can also be disabled in the settings.

It does not do anything like obfuscating where the document comes from, like Chrome on Android does to hide the fact that they are serving AMP pages.

Which is the reason why I not use Safari on OS X (additionally, the Safari devtools are atrocious).

This is hacker news, and you're talking about apple.

Yes. They also have ~4-5% browser market share.

I just confirmed that desktop Safari has exactly the behavior this post describes. If I visit any Wikipedia page, what I see in the URL bar is "[lock icon] en.wikipedia.org". The path is entirely removed.

Its an option under Safari/Preferences/Advanced called Show Full Website Address.

My Safari has the full path

13.1.1 (15609.2.9.1.2)

Weird! I see: https://i.imgur.com/6r73iFt.png (v13.1.2)

Is there any chance you've checked "Preferences > Advanced > Show Full Website Address"?

Can confirm, it is checked. This does seems like something that should be a user configured option.

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