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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:43PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:43PM (#734321)

    Good luck with that. There are the OS, utilities, libraries (static and shared), and other weird assorted programs and environments required to actually build something non-trivial. And they *all* have to be at the right version. Then you do the "configure", "make", "make install" routine and it fails to build with some error. It is extremely rare that any sources you download will actually build. But go ahead and tear your hair out if you want to.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @11:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @11:04AM (#735261)

    I've been down this path a few times. Even in a clean system with specific libraries installed it's still a pain in the ass.