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Discussion on: Why People Don't Like When Chrome Messes with URLs

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Kirill Shestakov • Edited

URLs is something that any internet user needs to understand, just like folder path is something any computer user needs to understand. Any attempt to hide it will lead to restricting user's freedom. Users should be able to interact with a URL like with any other text input in the page, they should see the text, understand it, copy, paste, modify. If the URLs are not shown, not only users actions are going to be restricted, but it could lead to reduced literacy on how the internet works. Think of an old lady not understanding what a URL is, and imagine that this lack of understanding is going to be a norm - what good does it do?