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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: 2) by eravnrekaree on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:40AM (10 children)

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:40AM (#733998)

    Even microsoft wasnt arrogant enough to pull fast ones like this.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:48AM (#734042)

    Even microsoft wasnt arrogant enough to pull fast ones like this.

    MS browsers sucked merely from inattention. Well, there was the Active-X crap.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:09AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:09AM (#734067)

    Yes they were.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by shortscreen on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:10AM (6 children)

      by shortscreen (2252) on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:10AM (#734115) Journal

      yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95

      • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58PM

        by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58PM (#734234) Journal

        OSX's "finder" (I call it "blinder") hides entire filenames and paths by default.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (4 children)

        by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (#734265) Journal

        yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95

        Yes!...and yet there isn't a day goes by when I don't encounter technical folks, IT and programmers etc that actually leave it that way! Blows my mind every time. I'm always in Linux and the terminal is my "file explorer" so it's moot for me. However don't get me started about the binutils folks recent decision to single quote the display of files with spaces in the name by default unless you have QUOTING_STYLE=literal...changing behavior that's been in place for over 40 years...had me about loosing my mind.

        • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)

          by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:49PM (#734268) Journal

          Forgot to mention that the binutils change I was referring to was in the ls command.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:19PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:19PM (#734507)

            ls is part of coreutils, binutils has the assembler and linker and stuff.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Friday September 14 2018, @01:53AM

          by Arik (4543) on Friday September 14 2018, @01:53AM (#734643) Journal
          "Yes!...and yet there isn't a day goes by when I don't encounter technical folks, IT and programmers etc that actually leave it that way!"

          That's almost as insane as leaving the browser configuration default.
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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 14 2018, @11:26AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday September 14 2018, @11:26AM (#734783) Homepage
    Is there much of a difference between stripping the first few characters off the start of a domain name, and stripping the last few letters off the end of a filename? Oh, how we laughed as evil.txt.com dropped its payload...
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