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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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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
(Score: 5, Informative) by mechanicjay on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:27AM (4 children)
About 7 years ago, I got into it with one of the Chromium devs in a ticket over how they were forcing SSL False Start down everyone's throat, breaking SSL implementations left and right.
The best part, you couldn't turn it off, you had to beg and plead to be added to a COMPILED IN BLACKLIST to not have false start run if someone accessed your site.
Then, after some amount of time, they would just nuke you off the blacklist.
reference: Chromium Bug Report [chromium.org].
Sadly, I can no longer find the back and forth I had with this guy, that issue is merely the result, but the level of arrogance was simply disgusting.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by exaeta on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:09AM
Welcome to the fuck world which happens when we don't fund a decent free software community and corporations pay for "open source" instead!
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:01PM (2 children)
Check out the tickets from users about removing http. Tickets just get closed.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467 [chromium.org]
pkasting is an ass.
There was a comment about how this was removed as part of the 'removing unnecessary features' in Chrome. They won't even add one checkbox for this.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)
I'm not sure when, but at some point they did add a checkbox:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains [chrome]
Disabling that flag shows both www./m. and http.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM
Nice.
How long until this checkbox is removed in the name of minimalism? That's the excuse they gave last time.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:39AM (2 children)
1998: We're going to do away with .com, .org, .net etc. and use single keywords instead. That worked well, didn't it, especially when your kids' school project involved them accessing the website of the official Washington D.C. residence of the President of the United States. (*)
2018: We're going to do away with www., m., etc. and make the browser smart enough to use the format it knows you want. That works well, doesn't it, especially when you're trying to search Twitter by hashtag in latest-first order on a mobile device, and desktop mode is the only format supporting said search.
(* Historical explanation for non-old school bearded geeks: the keyword 'whitehouse' redirected not to whitehouse.gov, but to whitehouse.com, which was a British gonzo porn magazine.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:26PM
Not quite a keyword as in the aol sense, but an auto appended .com if the luser forgot to type it.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday September 14 2018, @04:21PM
Isn't whitehouse.com still a NFSW site? Or does it actually redirect to whitehouse.gov now?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:48PM
I am moving to TempleOS. It is sane by comparison.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:20PM (2 children)
-s.org
Two web pages with the same content cause both to rank worse in search than would just one page
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:40PM (1 child)
dig www.soylentnews.org
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.soylentnews.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.soylentnews.org. 3600 IN CNAME soylentnews.org.
soylentnews.org. 43 IN A 23.239.29.31
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday September 14 2018, @01:43AM
Redirect permanent / https://soylentnews.org/ [soylentnews.org]
^-- You need to put this in the www.sn's virtual host config.
That the two hostnames have the same IP address is not an HTTP redirect. As long as it stays that way, SN will be suffering the Duplicate Content Penalty.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]