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posted by martyb on Sunday December 15 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-it-easy-for-fake-sites dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @10:10PM (#932496)

    If you use Chrome, Google, request the "mobile" version of some web pages or use a mobile user agent when accessing some web pages, they will give you the AMP version. Note that you are safe from the first two, but even if you use Firefox or another browser and request the mobile version or use a mobile user agent, you can end up on an AMP page. And do note, a majority, and an increasing majority at that, of web requests are considered mobile.