SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain From Chrome
With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
When Chrome 76 was released, Google decided to no longer show the www "trivial subdomain" in the address bar when visiting a web site. This means, that if you are visiting www.bleepingcomputer.com, Chrome would only show bleepingcomputer.com in the address bar...
[...] According to a Google engineer, www is considered a trivial subdomain because "this isn't information that most users need to concern themselves with in most cases".
Many users, though, felt that this was a security issue, could be confusing for users, and is technically incorrect because www.domain.com is not always the same host as domain.com.
So is this a distinction without a difference or a real issue?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @04:38PM
Even more compelling on top of this is that this would also screw with any user who tried to use a different browser.
For instance a low information user who is accustomed to being able to go to the "news" website, or "channel8", or "weather" or whatever else would suddenly find their search would simply be directed to a search engine where they may not immediately find what they were looking for. This other browser is so broken, back to Chrome they go.