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Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names

posted by martyb on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-stop-"helping" dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google Chrome developers advised they would wait until Fall or Spring to disclose how they would "kill" URLs, but it appears the endeavor has already begun: users have found that the latest build, Chrome 69, hides the "WWW" and "M" subdomains in the address bar. Bleeping Computer has instructions on how to restore what Google insists is "trivial."

Source: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/09/09/google_slammed_for_chrome_change_that_strips_out_www_from_domains/

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:48AM (1 child)

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:48AM (#733976)

    Yep first thing I do on a new MS OS is to turn on all the useful things so I know what the files are.

    Mainly don't have to do that these days as when I spin up a new VM it is from a base that is pre-configured to be correct. Run Linux as the base OS so extensions are on by default.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 14 2018, @11:50AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday September 14 2018, @11:50AM (#734789) Homepage
    I'm showing my age, but to me, unixalikes don't even have (the concept of) "extensions". A nonempty sequence of non-nil and non-"/" characters, preferably not including those in $LFS is a filename to me, that's it, it doesn't have separate parts to it. Alas windows weenies have brought their unnecessary artifices in and sullied my once-pure OS. They brought filenames containing characters from $LFS with them too, the bastards.
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