> From Safari hiding the full path in the browser in the name of "minimalism"
That was never the intent of hiding the path, it was and is to help users identify what a site’s domain actually is. To distinguish malicious sites with recognizable domain-like strings in/overlapping their paths as well as malicious sites with recognizable domains as subdomains. It’s not a panacea, but it’s effective. Chrome (and IIRC Firefox) also experimented with similar approaches before ultimately splitting the difference with higher contrast text for the domain.
That was never the intent of hiding the path, it was and is to help users identify what a site’s domain actually is. To distinguish malicious sites with recognizable domain-like strings in/overlapping their paths as well as malicious sites with recognizable domains as subdomains. It’s not a panacea, but it’s effective. Chrome (and IIRC Firefox) also experimented with similar approaches before ultimately splitting the difference with higher contrast text for the domain.