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Google Chrome developers advised they would wait until Fall or Spring to disclose how they would "kill" URLs, but it appears the endeavor has already begun: users have found that the latest build, Chrome 69, hides the "WWW" and "M" subdomains in the address bar. Bleeping Computer has instructions on how to restore what Google insists is "trivial."
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Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names
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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:10AM (16 children)
Google replaced Microsoft as the big arrogant dick that thinks it own computing.
Their software sucks too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:53AM (2 children)
When I think about this kind of thing, I'm always reminded of Comstar [sarna.net].
Either that or the priests of the temples of Syrinx.
But probably just AOHell.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:01AM (1 child)
That is exactly were we are returning to, AOL Keywords. Remember when those were as ubiquitous on TV and print ads as social media promotions are now?
Except Google wants the sweet, sweet coins for gatekeeping the keywords instead of resurrecting AOL from the grave.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:06PM
With a side dish of centralized highly politicized censorship.
(Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:40AM (10 children)
Even microsoft wasnt arrogant enough to pull fast ones like this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:48AM
MS browsers sucked merely from inattention. Well, there was the Active-X crap.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:09AM (7 children)
Yes they were.
(Score: 5, Informative) by shortscreen on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:10AM (6 children)
yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58PM
OSX's "finder" (I call it "blinder") hides entire filenames and paths by default.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (4 children)
Yes!...and yet there isn't a day goes by when I don't encounter technical folks, IT and programmers etc that actually leave it that way! Blows my mind every time. I'm always in Linux and the terminal is my "file explorer" so it's moot for me. However don't get me started about the binutils folks recent decision to single quote the display of files with spaces in the name by default unless you have QUOTING_STYLE=literal...changing behavior that's been in place for over 40 years...had me about loosing my mind.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)
Forgot to mention that the binutils change I was referring to was in the ls command.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:19PM (1 child)
ls is part of coreutils, binutils has the assembler and linker and stuff.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Friday September 14 2018, @02:30AM
Right you are! Slight brain cramp there.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Friday September 14 2018, @01:53AM
That's almost as insane as leaving the browser configuration default.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 14 2018, @11:26AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:17PM
See also, Redhat is to Linux
If the stuff actually worked, people wouldn't mind, but inevitably that kid of relationship leads to bad technical decisions which leads to community rebellion which leads to parallel arguments where the arrogant company states they win the argument because they're the futuristic authority figure and when they say jump the community better ask how high or else, and the community states they win the argument because the companies technical decisions suck and they'll get abandoned well not today but maybe someday, and both sides yell really loud about their superiority in topics that the other side doesn't care about.
By analogy the best response for "The General Public" with no dog in the fight, is just to move to FreeBSD and run some other browser. See ya, Chrome! Bye Bye RedHat!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:18PM
To better define "sucks", their software is technically superior but actually more evil than Microsoft's.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.