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Google just made the best argument for hiding the URL in your browser's address bar

You probably would have never noticed.

Google made a tiny change recently that is probably a big deal for people who need to work on this kind of stuff every day, but one that means little to nothing for everyone else. Google has been working on ways to improve this since 2017, and it thinks it has reached the point where ccTLD redirects are no longer needed and all searches are in the process of being "un-re-directed" back to plain old google.com. Case in point: I, and plenty of other paranoid security-conscious people like me, have long told you that it's very important to check the URL of any website you've visited to make sure it is legit.

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