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Google Experiments With How URLs Are Displayed in Chrome – PCMag AU
The experiment aims to highlight if changing how URLs are displayed in the address bar helps users spot when they are visiting malicious websites.
We rely on URLs to tell us which websites we are browsing, but it can be difficult to spot when an address has been manipulated. Maybe the “i” has been switched for a “1,” or the “o” for a “0,” and there’s many more sophisticated methods scammers utilize to try and trick us into trusting malicious websites. In response, Google is running an experiment and changing the way URLs are displayed to users in the Chrome browser.
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In a post on the Chromium Blog, Emily Stark, Eric Mill, …
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