EPISODE · Sep 5, 2018 · 6 MIN
Google Wants to Kill the URL
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
Google's Chrome browser turns 10 today, and in its short life it has introduced a lot of radical changes to the web. From popularizing auto-updates to aggressively promoting HTTPS web encryption, the Chrome security team likes to grapple with big, conceptual problems. That reach and influence can be divisive, though, and as Chrome looks ahead to its next 10 years, the team is mulling its most controversial initiative yet: fundamentally rethinking URLs across the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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