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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: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday December 16 2019, @11:56AM (1 child)
Why is "useful to exercise" even remotely relevant? The distinction between driving on the left versus right is not useful to exercise until you run into someone driving down the same side of the road. The point is that these can be very different and break the user experience for no valid reason (it doesn't help the users and it doesn't respect web standards). Google has just created an enormous headache for their own purposes.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 16 2019, @12:44PM
Because that is the point that is being debated. I.e. it's totally relevant, and the only thing that's relevant, in this subthread.
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