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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:39AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:39AM (#734124)

    1998: We're going to do away with .com, .org, .net etc. and use single keywords instead. That worked well, didn't it, especially when your kids' school project involved them accessing the website of the official Washington D.C. residence of the President of the United States. (*)

    2018: We're going to do away with www., m., etc. and make the browser smart enough to use the format it knows you want. That works well, doesn't it, especially when you're trying to search Twitter by hashtag in latest-first order on a mobile device, and desktop mode is the only format supporting said search.

    (* Historical explanation for non-old school bearded geeks: the keyword 'whitehouse' redirected not to whitehouse.gov, but to whitehouse.com, which was a British gonzo porn magazine.)

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:26PM (#734248)

    Not quite a keyword as in the aol sense, but an auto appended .com if the luser forgot to type it.

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday September 14 2018, @04:21PM

    by Freeman (732) on Friday September 14 2018, @04:21PM (#734885) Journal

    Isn't whitehouse.com still a NFSW site? Or does it actually redirect to whitehouse.gov now?

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