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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, @06:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:34PM (#734383)

    that's the opposite of wysiwyg

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:29PM (#735630)

    that's the reality of wysiwyg editors