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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by masswerk on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:39PM (#17929805)
Compare yesterdays Ars Technica piece, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/google-wants-to-get-...

As a comment reads there, do they want to reintroduce AOL keywords?

Edit: May we expect a non-standard subdomain "google-remote", which is more of a protocol-extension and will be also hidden?

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by akurtzhs on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:58PM (#17930353)
They already reintroduced AOL keywords in 2011 with their Direct Connect "feature" for Google+, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect..., so one could go straight to Pepsi's Google+ page with +Pepsi.

They killed it off in 2014.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by Donzo on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:02PM (#17930024)
"Their complexity makes them a security hazard."

GTFOH! HANDS OFF!

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by masswerk on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:09PM (#17930065)
Notably, what is the common answer to a system regarded to be too complex to be handled on a general level, so that it may be considered a common risk? Authority (read, trusted man in the middle).
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