[nandhp]

They used to -- see http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/rwarner/classes/legalaspects/... (§2.4, about half-way down) and http://labs.ft.com/2014/05/do-we-really-need-to-hide-the-url...

But it was removed in later versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer, because everyone turned it off as soon as they made their first search engine query.

[jakub_g]

I remember that, though honestly internet was a bit different 15 years ago - it was in (almost)-pre-HTTPS, pre-public-WiFi, pre-Snowden times. It's time to progress now that the realities and technical capabilities changed.

Today there should not be "do not display this anymore" checkbox.