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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: 3, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (4 children)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM (#734265)

    yes, for instance, automatically hiding filename extensions was a (stupid) default setting in Windows since '95

    Yes!...and yet there isn't a day goes by when I don't encounter technical folks, IT and programmers etc that actually leave it that way! Blows my mind every time. I'm always in Linux and the terminal is my "file explorer" so it's moot for me. However don't get me started about the binutils folks recent decision to single quote the display of files with spaces in the name by default unless you have QUOTING_STYLE=literal...changing behavior that's been in place for over 40 years...had me about loosing my mind.

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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:49PM (#734268)

    Forgot to mention that the binutils change I was referring to was in the ls command.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:19PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:19PM (#734507)

      ls is part of coreutils, binutils has the assembler and linker and stuff.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Friday September 14 2018, @01:53AM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday September 14 2018, @01:53AM (#734643) Journal
    "Yes!...and yet there isn't a day goes by when I don't encounter technical folks, IT and programmers etc that actually leave it that way!"

    That's almost as insane as leaving the browser configuration default.
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