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Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.
The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man attack. There are other vulnerabilities as well.
[...] The deprecation will start from Chrome version 82 planned to be released in 2020 Q2.
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Google Plans To Deprecate FTP URL Support In Chrome
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Monday August 19 2019, @03:17PM
No, but there are a lot of people that would love to kill it. And this change by Google is a step in that direction.
One thing that FTP can do that "web" shit still can't is upload large files. HTTP submit forms crap out with files over a certain size/time taken and they have no way to pause resume or otherwise manage the transfer. But now that I think of it, I'm not sure web browsers even support uploading via FTP. I seem to recall IE used to offer some Active X add on that embedded an enhanced FTP client as if it were part of the browser, but obviously I never used that.
It will be interesting, Google's search engine still indexes FTP sites. Will this also change? Ah, the good old days of searching for a file name and "Index Of" to find a download without log-in restrictions or insane advertising. (The comments about promoting advertising are quite right)