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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: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Sunday December 15 2019, @08:01PM
Just thinking some more about this, is there some reason that https://www.soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org] does not redirect to https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org] ?
At least on my thing-a-majig I'm not logged in if I go to the first URL, but I am if I go to the second. At least in this case, hitting the "login" button will helpfully redirect to the second url. I've run in to login problems on other sites where a web search will land me on page that starts with a different subdomain. Without being able to see the subdomain, that would be extra confusing. The one I am thinking of even had a bunch of other misconfigured subdomains for the same server that randomly came up in searches.