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

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: 4, Informative) by eravnrekaree on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:47AM (6 children)

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:47AM (#733999)

    Even Microsoft wasn't evil and crooked enough to pull off fast ones like this in its day.

    Google is far more evil and pernicious than Microsoft was in its day. At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all). Google Chromebooks are basically just a glorified dumb terminal connected to a google mainframe.

    Google expects you to hand all of your documents over to them and actively discourages people from being able to posess their own documents. They intentionally sell devices with little more than enough hard drive space for the OS and with little room to store documents there, even if you were allowed to. Thus when you want your documents, you have to ask very politely for them from google, with a pretty please. If google decides they dont want to give them to you any more, or you forgot to pay your $100 per month cloud hosting and software as a service bill, you poor schmuck are SOL.

    If you do not actually have in your posession, your documents, you do not own them. PERIOD. People who think that having cloud based solutions are so hip and cool will be in for a rude awakening when these cloud providers think you have had a free ride for too long and start demanding hundreds of dollars in fees to access your documents. Then you wished that you hadnt demanded everyone give up their PCs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:10AM (#734027)

    No, Microsoft would never do anything evil like detect that you just ran the Chrome/Firefox/Other installer then interrupt it with a warning suggestion to stick with IE/Edge. Oh wait...

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/12/microsoft_windows_10_app_suggestions/ [theregister.co.uk]

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:32AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:32AM (#734107) Journal

    At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data

    Microsoft was the first company (that I knew of) to come up with "This software is leased, not sold" scheme. Based on that idea alone, you own NOTHING on your computer. At any time, Microsoft can cancel your lease, and leave you with a pile of junk electronic gear. On their way out, it's simple as all hell to reformat your hard drives, leaving no data at all.

    Today, Microsoft is promoting their cloud services. You, the consumer, own NOTHING in the cloud. If your lease is canceled, or expires, you aren't even left with the junk hardware on which your data resides. The box on your desk contains a few diodes and capacitors, and that's it.

    I'm afraid that your perception of Microsoft is just as flawed as the public perception of Disney.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:12PM (#734215)

      The first company to lease software? Geesh people have short memories these days.

      They are not even close to being the first. Or the last.

    • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Friday September 14 2018, @02:36AM

      by toddestan (4982) on Friday September 14 2018, @02:36AM (#734663)

      Maybe they were one of the first in the consumer business leasing to individuals, but companies like IBM were leasing software well before Microsoft even existed.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by stormwyrm on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:08AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:08AM (#734137) Journal

    At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all).

    Did they, really? What I remember is that Microsoft made you to lock up all your data into proprietary formats that they and only they had control over. That makes them just as evil for the limitations of the technology at the time. I'd extend your statement to: if you do not actually have in your possession your documents in a format that anyone has the freedom to understand and implement, you do not own them either.

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