The end of URLs??

[barbaz]

https://www.wired.com/story/google-want ... l-the-url/

WTH?
So are they really going to "kill the URL", i.e. outright replace URLs with something else? How is this even possible?
Or are they just going to stop displaying URLs as-is?

[barbaz]

Now there's this, which maybe related? - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06 ... -url-path/

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How could it be? The url is the adress of the page. It's impossible to avoid using urls. How could I access, for example, the page [link removed by moderator], if I didn't know the url ?!

[barbaz]

Google is dropping this. https://www.ghacks.net/2021/06/11/googl ... in-chrome/