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Google Slammed for Chrome Change that Strips "www." and "m." from Domain Names

posted by martyb on Thursday September 13 2018, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-stop-"helping" dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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."

Source: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/09/09/google_slammed_for_chrome_change_that_strips_out_www_from_domains/

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:48AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:48AM (#734001)

    People stopped using Firefox but it's had little effect on Mozilla's decisions to ruin their browser. You can bitch all you like but Google wouldn't care if the whole tech community dropped Chrome tomorrow because they've already reached critical mass, of which we are a tiny fraction. Google will do whatever they want with Chrome and the world will continue to use it. Just like Microsoft can turn Windows into an ad/mal-ware pile of shit and still dominate the OS space.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:58AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @03:58AM (#734005)

    All good things in life comes to those who are patient, strategic and hard working. The longer something takes, the more satisfaction it will produce. Build your life around long term gains and pleasures.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:23PM (#734542)

      alarm bells going off there:"hard working".
      smart people agree that the universe in general is lazy.
      do it once and do it correctly then enjoy it for 100 billion years :)