And this is why it is pure poison for web browsers to not display the actual and complete barenaked URL in the address bar. https://t.co/t4fVmhZ4mB

— Charlie BRAIN WORMS Stross (@cstross) October 14, 2021

The poison is intentional. The lie — as always — is that it was “for security” because those poor, poor rubes grammas didn’t know what all those funny words meant.

The reality is that the URL was deliberately obscured so that advertising and such could be more easily foisted on us and its source hidden, while search is emphasized. Why do people so easily buy the lie that it’s “security” and “for your own good?” Especially since that has never, ever been the case.