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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: 5, Informative) by mechanicjay on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:27AM (4 children)

    by mechanicjay (7) <mechanicjayNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:27AM (#734015) Homepage Journal

    About 7 years ago, I got into it with one of the Chromium devs in a ticket over how they were forcing SSL False Start down everyone's throat, breaking SSL implementations left and right.

    The best part, you couldn't turn it off, you had to beg and plead to be added to a COMPILED IN BLACKLIST to not have false start run if someone accessed your site.

    Then, after some amount of time, they would just nuke you off the blacklist.

    reference: Chromium Bug Report [chromium.org].
    Sadly, I can no longer find the back and forth I had with this guy, that issue is merely the result, but the level of arrogance was simply disgusting.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by exaeta on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:09AM

    by exaeta (6957) on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:09AM (#734046) Homepage Journal

    Welcome to the fuck world which happens when we don't fund a decent free software community and corporations pay for "open source" instead!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:01PM (#734170)

    Check out the tickets from users about removing http. Tickets just get closed.

    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467 [chromium.org]

    pkasting is an ass.

    There was a comment about how this was removed as part of the 'removing unnecessary features' in Chrome. They won't even add one checkbox for this.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:47PM (#734200)

      I'm not sure when, but at some point they did add a checkbox:
      chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains [chrome]
      Disabling that flag shows both www./m. and http.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (#734263)

        Nice.
        How long until this checkbox is removed in the name of minimalism? That's the excuse they gave last time.