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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: 3, Touché) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:29PM (9 children)
How about how they hide email addresses from local users when you're using Outlook connected to Exchange?
If you're using Outlook with Exchange and your buddy Billy Gates in the same company emails you, it just shows "From: Billy Gates" instead of "From: Billy Gates " or "From: Billy Gates "
But if a bad guy formats a phishing mail to you like so:
From: Billy Gates,
It'll ALSO display as "From: Billy Gates" because the comma that's not enclosed in quote marks makes it look like a second address, and Outlook will only display the first address in a From field, no matter how obviously absurd it is.
I could go on all day about Outlook and Exchange's fun little traits like this.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:34PM (8 children)
That's what I get for not previewing. Oh well.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:45PM (6 children)
It's okay, the comment still works. When reading it I couldn't decide if you wrote email addresses in < and > that got eaten, or if you were making a point by deliberately writing the same from field each time to show the absurdity of hiding useful information.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:07PM (5 children)
I wrote the addresses in brackets and they got eaten, yeah. I've been looking at raw text so much I forgot this was a WYSIWYG editor that would think they were HTML.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:34PM (1 child)
that's the opposite of wysiwyg
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:29PM
that's the reality of wysiwyg editors
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday September 14 2018, @01:48AM (1 child)
But were it the only one, it would be sufficient.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:58AM
<TT> is cruise control for troll.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @08:09PM
It's not WYSIWYG. It's WYSIWTF. Too many people are used to it to make serious changes though.
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:47PM
Somehow, it all works out anyway since by becoming less clear by losing the information provided by the > and <, the point is again illustrated.