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Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain from Chrome

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

Fnord666 writes:

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: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday December 16 2019, @12:13AM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 16 2019, @12:13AM (#932555) Homepage Journal

    Just as most people don't know about the trailing dot in a domain name:
    "jazz.fm." tells the DNS not to go looking for a jazz.fm.topoi.pooq.com, for example.
    (topoi.pooq.com is my search space for local entities. I'm currently posting this from midwinter.topoi.pooq.com, which I can refer to as just midwinter)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @10:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @10:42AM (#932779)

    I've used this to bypass some restrictions too... :)

    For example: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=35121 [soylentnews.org] is blocked by the proxy but https://soylentnews.org./comments.pl?sid=35121 [soylentnews.org.] sometimes isn't.

    I think some webservers don't like that though...

    Similar for email addresses etc.