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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, Insightful) by zocalo on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:49AM (6 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:49AM (#734060)
    Have you actually looked at a URL recently? Since all the cookie laws were passed they seem to be stuffed full of tracking information so all this does is change a URL that might look something like this:

    https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=xweaW_nBH5GCabKeuMAD&q=soylent+news&oq=soyl&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.35i39k1j0i131i20i263k1j0i131i67k1j0i20i263k1j0i131i67k1j0i67k1l5.1029.2332.0.3036.7.5.1.0.0.0.89.380.5.5.0..2..0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.6.385.0..0i10k1j0i10i30k1j0i30k1j0i5i10i30k1j0i5i30k1.0.9fc7dRlHpHc

    Into one that looks like this:

    https://google.com/search?source=hp&ei=xweaW_nBH5GCabKeuMAD&q=soylent+news&oq=soyl&gs_l=psy-ab.3.0.35i39k1j0i131i20i263k1j0i131i67k1j0i20i263k1j0i131i67k1j0i67k1l5.1029.2332.0.3036.7.5.1.0.0.0.89.380.5.5.0..2..0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.6.385.0..0i10k1j0i10i30k1j0i30k1j0i5i10i30k1j0i5i30k1.0.9fc7dRlHpHc

    So, uh, yeah, thanks for decluttering my URLs and saving me from suffocation due to lack of whitespace, Google.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:27AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:27AM (#734076)

    Even 3 air bubbles is better than nothing when you are drowning in text content.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:34PM (4 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:34PM (#734191) Homepage Journal

      You're right. Our apologies. We'll get right on removing story text, just leaving the headlines. We could probably do away with comments too, because we desire a meaningful conversation with our audience.

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      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:14PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:14PM (#734217)

        Have you thought about putting giant pictures with each article? They don't have to bear any relationship to the article, you know, just big pictures to decrease the word density.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:51PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:51PM (#734231) Homepage Journal

          Excellent idea! We'll get right on that. Cat pictures, dank memes, or naked chicks? Wait, why choose? Dank memes made of pictures of naked chicks holding cats incoming.

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        • (Score: 3, Funny) by fyngyrz on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:05PM (1 child)

          by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:05PM (#734241) Journal

          Have you thought about putting giant pictures with each article?

          No, no. Videos. Huge videos that auto-play. That is how you touch the hearts of the masses. That, and pop-ups and pop-unders. Oh, those sweet, sweet windows everywhere.