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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by UncleMeat on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:55PM (#17929958)
Users don't see that.

Expecting users to use the URL bar to detect phishing via homoglyphs is insanity.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by peterwwillis on Friday September 07, 2018 @06:06AM (#17933077)
Right. So messing with the URL bar is pointless. If people actually don't like it, get rid of it, but provide some other means to establish authenticity of what you're looking at.
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