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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:50AM (7 children)
Its not heedlessly hiding anything, its like a tracheotomy for some sites where the designers don't follow good practices. Removing these characters allows the reader just enough extra whitespace to take a breath.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:19AM (3 children)
Even taken in this light, it's still dumb. Don't hide that shit from the users, if anything make it more prominent. User complaints are the only thing that will make those 'developers' do anything right anyway.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:55PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:54AM (1 child)
Bet you can't keep it up [soylentnews.org] as long as Arik has.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:36AM
Arik should get a boyfriend or something
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:32AM
This is the argument used to hide everything after ? in the url
Users don't need to see that crap, right
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:27PM
What breath? Fucking aliens and their white light eating habits.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday September 14 2018, @01:02AM
Sure it is. For example, sometimes the "mobile" site just isn't working right. It's good that I can see that I am on m.domain.tld and remove the 'm.' to get to a working site. Sometimes a site confuses itself and it's helpful to delete the CGI parameters that seem to be causing the problem, leaving others in place.
How is that supposed to work when the browser hides it all from me? If anything, having all of that swept under the rug means developers will feel free to be less consistent and even to include information in the URL that shouldn't be exposed at all.