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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: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:19AM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:19AM (#734032) Journal
    "Its not heedlessly hiding anything, its like a tracheotomy for some sites where the designers don't follow good practices. Removing these characters allows the reader just enough extra whitespace to take a breath."

    Even taken in this light, it's still dumb. Don't hide that shit from the users, if anything make it more prominent. User complaints are the only thing that will make those 'developers' do anything right anyway.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:55PM (#734421)
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:54AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:54AM (#734723)

      Bet you can't keep it up [soylentnews.org] as long as Arik has.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:36AM (#735251)

        Arik should get a boyfriend or something