Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by ancarda on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:20PM (#17928243)

Given the adoption rate of SSL, I imagine the padlock itself will become useless even without Chrome's changes. Does it mean anything if almost every website has it?

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by tialaramex on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:27PM (#17928324)

The clearly announced intent of at least Mozilla and Google (and I'd assume Apple and Microsoft but I don't pay as much attention) is to focus on highlighting the insecure state because that has much better security UX. Labeling one site you visit today "Not Secure" stands out. With luck it might be enough that you don't type in your credit card details.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by CydeWeys on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:48PM (#17928530)

That's why Chrome is moving away from showing the padlock to displaying "Not secure" for sites that aren't secure. The padlock will be going away entirely; secure is the default state.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by nyolfen on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:23PM (#17928274)

ideally it means no passive snooping

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