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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: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:39AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:39AM (#734108) Journal

    The world would be a much better place if people who are too dumb to use computers would quit buying them.

    Oh, shut up, mate.
    Let them buy computers as many as they like, I don't want to revert to computer prices from the age of

    "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
        -- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943.

    The one and only good thing Microsoft has done (or significantly contributed to): commoditized the computer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:17PM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:17PM (#734506) Journal
    I know, but it's not worth it.

    I'd gladly go back to pre-september prices if the internet came back with them.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:44AM (#735252)

    Obviously he never considered the market for porn