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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   
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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• Re:Google's far worse than Microsoft (Score: 5, Insightful) by stormwyrm on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:08AM

  by stormwyrm (717) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:08AM (#734137) Journal

  At least Microsoft promoted the idea you should own and possess your data (It was a PC OS after all).

  Did they, really? What I remember is that Microsoft made you to lock up all your data into proprietary formats that they and only they had control over. That makes them just as evil for the limitations of the technology at the time. I'd extend your statement to: if you do not actually have in your possession your documents in a format that anyone has the freedom to understand and implement, you do not own them either.

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  Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.

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