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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."
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Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:03AM (15 children)
The only thing that will get Google's attention is Chrome's market share dropping.
The only way that Chrome's market share drops is if you stop using Chrome and/or Chromium.
When do you decide you've had enough of the "new MicroSoft" (aka Google) and give Chrome the IE treatment (stop using it)?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:21AM
Seems more like all the big tech companies are overrun by the type of people who would consider this a good idea. They are going to ab test and survey themselves to obsolescence. Thats what NHST does to you.
Look at the reddit q anon ban for supposed violence (there was an insane amount of nonsense but no violence there). More and more crackdown on "wrong" thoughts and practices are coming, some "wrong" things are more directly political than others. These www characters are just a part of it. I dunno how to invest in the alternatives like voat that people are now discovering due to these bans, but it seems like they are in for huge growth.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:48AM (2 children)
People stopped using Firefox but it's had little effect on Mozilla's decisions to ruin their browser. You can bitch all you like but Google wouldn't care if the whole tech community dropped Chrome tomorrow because they've already reached critical mass, of which we are a tiny fraction. Google will do whatever they want with Chrome and the world will continue to use it. Just like Microsoft can turn Windows into an ad/mal-ware pile of shit and still dominate the OS space.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:58AM (1 child)
All good things in life comes to those who are patient, strategic and hard working. The longer something takes, the more satisfaction it will produce. Build your life around long term gains and pleasures.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:23PM
alarm bells going off there:"hard working".
smart people agree that the universe in general is lazy.
do it once and do it correctly then enjoy it for 100 billion years :)
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:14AM (4 children)
I switched back to firefox a couple of years ago as I was worried about how much power I was giving google (also moved to duckduckgo -- when they introduced their uk specific version)
I still keep chrome though because when I connect to a https site with a self signed cert - like an ilo - I can actually connect to it easily in chrome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:42AM (1 child)
Chrome will block you. I for one hate our new data sucking overlord.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:05PM
Chrome allows you to do two clicks to get past.
Firefox requires you to open another dialog, view the certificate, then make an exception
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:52PM (1 child)
Don't worry. Firefox will be hiding "www." and "m." before long.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:48AM
Why would they do that?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:20AM (4 children)
How do you send the message if you've never used chrome or chromium?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:28AM (3 children)
With Midori, downloaded by a Linux distro's package manager? Now if it would only sort local directories in some sane order, such as something approximately alphabetical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:07PM (2 children)
I love Midori
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:50PM (1 child)
So do I, when I don't have to find a file on my local disk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:59AM
Wut?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:14PM
Nah, they'll also pay attention if they start losing ad revenue.