Web users rely on the URL as their primary method to determine if a website is authentic, but Google admits that URLs have usability challenges. There are a number of ways attackers can manipulate ...

Google is working on providing Chrome users with an option to set the browser to always show full URLs for all websites they visit. At the moment, the option to always show full URLs can only be ...

Google will subject Chrome users to a large-scale test in the next version of its browser to discover how people respond to just seeing a site's domain name without the full URL for pages on that site ...

The goal is to make it harder for phishing attacks to succeed by hiding much of a site's URL. The change will roll out to some users in October in Chrome 86, but doesn't affect enterprise-enrolled ...

Engineers on Google's Chromium project are working on a new setting to satisfy Chrome users who still want to see the full URL of a website in the browser's address bar. However, Google thinks showing ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google is ...

Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that will warn users about similar, or lookalike, URLs that a user may visit thinking they are going to the normal site. This feature is designed to ...

For the past three years or so, Google has been working on a project behind the scenes with the goal to hide full URLs in the address bar. Now, Google is pulling the plug on its Chrome experiment and ...