Safari does this too, doesn't it? What do you think Apple's motivation is?

rchaud · on July 31, 2019

I don't use Safari on my MBP for exactly this reason (lack of extensions being another). Apple has always erred on the side of "obscure everything that even remotely reminds users of PCs". The current iPad's marketing slogan is "What's a computer?".

They've introduced mouse support (in 2019 no less), but even then it's disabled by default and buried in the Accessibility settings menu.

HNisCurated · on July 31, 2019

"Google evil. Apple privacy."- HN

While I'm not a fan of obscuring what a URL is actually doing, this already is happening with headers.

But this is news because it's Google.

Apple does this and it's a "feature".

Marketing is a dangerous tool.