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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:20AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:20AM (#734117)

    The only way that Chrome's market share drops is if you stop using Chrome and/or Chromium.

    How do you send the message if you've never used chrome or chromium?

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:28AM (3 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:28AM (#734147) Homepage Journal

    How do you send the message if you've never used chrome or chromium?

    With Midori, downloaded by a Linux distro's package manager? Now if it would only sort local directories in some sane order, such as something approximately alphabetical.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:07PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:07PM (#734173)

      I love Midori

      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:50PM (1 child)

        by hendrikboom (1125) on Thursday September 13 2018, @08:50PM (#734451) Homepage Journal

        So do I, when I don't have to find a file on my local disk.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:59AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 15 2018, @10:59AM (#735259)

          Wut?