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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: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:34PM (8 children)

    by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:34PM (#734255)

    That's what I get for not previewing. Oh well.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:45PM (6 children)

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:45PM (#734323) Journal

    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)

      by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:07PM (#734365)

      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)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:34PM (#734383)

        that's the opposite of wysiwyg

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 16 2018, @12:29PM (#735630)

          that's the reality of wysiwyg editors

      • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday September 14 2018, @01:48AM (1 child)

        by Arik (4543) on Friday September 14 2018, @01:48AM (#734641) Journal
        This is just one of the reasons I set my default to code.

        But were it the only one, it would be sufficient.
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        If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:58AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 14 2018, @06:58AM (#734724)

          <TT> is cruise control for troll.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 14 2018, @08:09PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday September 14 2018, @08:09PM (#735026) Homepage Journal

        It's not WYSIWYG. It's WYSIWTF. Too many people are used to it to make serious changes though.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.

  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:47PM

    by sjames (2882) on Thursday September 13 2018, @05:47PM (#734351) Journal

    Somehow, it all works out anyway since by becoming less clear by losing the information provided by the > and <, the point is again illustrated.