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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: 2) by Pino P on Monday December 16 2019, @02:38AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday December 16 2019, @02:38AM (#932651) Journal

    Linux desktop users can't broadcast on Twitch without Chrome, as Chrome is the only browser that has an extension for the Authy 2FA service that Twitch requires before issuing a stream key, and the stand-alone Authy app for Windows does not work in Wine.

    Or is it better to buy a copy of Windows to run in a VM than to use Chrome?

    Or could you recommend a viable alternative to Twitch?

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