The URL – you know, the address you type in the top bar of the browser to enter websites – as we currently know, it may be that your number of days is counted. Google, the owner of Chrome, is already taking the first steps on how we use the Internet to change. But why and how?
Behind the idea of the company that owns the most used browser in the world is an attempt to enhance the security of user connections . The intention is to reduce the proliferation of online scams and fake news, which usually occur on fake websites with names similar to the original ones, so that the user is cheated.
This idea of some Google engineers began to be treated openly in the last month of. September, but now, according to Wired magazine, began to take its first steps. Even though it has made changes throughout its life, for example by forcing sites to adopt HTTPS encryption, the drastic change of removing the URL can be controversial and not to please everyone. .
After all, we've been used to it for years. with the current operation of the internet, correct? If you want to access UOL or any other site, go to the address bar and enter the site address, or a part of it, to open the page. But even this has slowly evolved in recent years, otherwise typing the "www."
What Google began to do
The company's researchers do not really ask for any change in the structure of the internet. However, would like to rethink the way browsers load the site you are browsing, so you do not have to deal with incredibly long and intelligible URLs – or any fraud with fake sites.
Tuesday (29), Google has already given the first details of the implementation of this change. According to Emily Stark, security manager for Google Chrome, Google does not want to create chaos by eliminating URLs. In reality, it is harder for hackers to earn money by confusing the user with the authenticity of a site.
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"What we are talking about is to change the way in which 39; identity of a website is preserved People should know easily the site in which they are located and they should not be confused nor think they are correct.We should not need to Advanced Knowledge of Internet Operations to Know It "
For now, Chrome's engineers have focused on detecting non-standard URLs. To do this, they created a collaboration tool called TrickURI, which helps developers check if their software displays consistent URLs. The intention is to give developers something to test so that they know how the URLs will be presented to users in different situations.
Another first step undertaken by Stark and his colleagues is to create warnings in Chrome that will be: displayed when a user visits a URL that could potentially be a phishing attempt . For the time being, this feature is being tested internally because it is complicated to develop a tool that correctly detects malicious sites without affecting legitimate sites.
"Our strategy for detecting false URLs is to compare characters that are similar and only domains that vary." Emily Stark, says Emily Stark.
The URL remains for the moment
In the short In the end, it's likely that the way you browse sites does not change and that URLs are still there. "Google's initial focus is on security – for which, according to Stark, there is still a lot of work to be done before you take the milestones.
One of the ideas of security is to get the user to focus on the important elements. and fine-tune how Chrome presents this to Internet users. The big challenge is to show users the parts of the URLs relevant to online security and decisions, while filtering all the additional components that re the addresses are difficult to understand. This is a big challenge because URLs work great for some people and many people like them.
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The big problem with playing a question as fundamental as the URL is that This may be good for Chrome, but not for the general Internet universe. For example: Would all browsers also change the decision of Google?
There is no doubt that with the mbadification of the Internet, URLs have become more difficult to understand and often, in mobile phones, they are not even displayed in their entirety – which hackers and crooks seized it with pleasure. But there is no simple solution to this problem, a simple change can affect the basics of the Internet. The Google strategy announced in September clearly indicates a general change.
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] "People have trouble understanding URLs, they are difficult to read, to understand which part of it should be trustworthy, I do not think that URLs work properly to communicate the identity of websites. "
In recent years, academic researchers have examined Other options that may replace URLs, but the problem has not yet been satisfactorily answered. Even Google engineers are divided between directions to follow, so they are only small steps yet.
"We do not know how this is going to happen because the discussion is active, but I know that everything we propose will be controversial." It is important to do something because
2014, Google then proceeded to a test involving the URL, the browser displaying only the URL of the browser.name of the main domain of the site so that users know in which domain they are located.If you want to view the full URL, you have to click on the area displaying the domain.The test has elicited rave reviews and was canceled soon after.
Power and Chrome user base must force changes on On the other hand, the site must ensure that the usability of its users remains satisfactory, so that there is no mbadive migration to other platforms. In other words, Chrome has become the king of the Internet after internet users. give up Internet Explorer.
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