iOS has hidden the pathname of URLs for some time now, but recently Chrome Canary introduced something similar behind a flag. I'm not involved in the development of Chrome experiment at all, but I've got more than 140 characters worth of opinion on it… We have a real security problem I recently received an email from my domain name registrar telling me spritecow.com was soon to expire. I followed
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