Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
by redleggedfrog on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:08AM
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I am being literal. The internet is not about freedom. It's about making money and influencing thought and action.
Realize that the majority (and I'm willing to say probably over 95%) of people today us the internet on their phone. They have a few "apps" which they switch through by swiping left or right (changing channels). The use Facebook, Amazon, their chosen politically aligned news site, Google search, and a few other things. Probably not much more than the 6 channels of TV I had as a kid.
And the Google searches are rarely if ever for anything beyond the first few links or the sponsored content. Really, page 2 and beyond might as well not exist. The users don't go there. Google could just return results from major organizations and users would be fine with it.
I lived through PC era, from start to finish. It took me a long time, but eventually I realized that 99% of the population was never going to understand how computers work. Just the concept of a file and a folder is beyond most people (that's why phones don't have them). Once I gave up on expecting people to learn about computers, computing became much easier. Phones, tablets, and so on, for the masses, the desktop for me. And now I didn't have to go fix peoples screwed up computers - they don't have them anymore.
The importance of a domain name, much less a sub-domain, is now irrelevant. A search result, of of the first few, is what matters. You will never get users to understand a URL.
At one time the internet might have been for us hackers, but that time has passed. It's now the domain of the masses.
Realize that the majority (and I'm willing to say probably over 95%) of people today us the internet on their phone. They have a few "apps" which they switch through by swiping left or right (changing channels). The use Facebook, Amazon, their chosen politically aligned news site, Google search, and a few other things. Probably not much more than the 6 channels of TV I had as a kid.
And the Google searches are rarely if ever for anything beyond the first few links or the sponsored content. Really, page 2 and beyond might as well not exist. The users don't go there. Google could just return results from major organizations and users would be fine with it.
I lived through PC era, from start to finish. It took me a long time, but eventually I realized that 99% of the population was never going to understand how computers work. Just the concept of a file and a folder is beyond most people (that's why phones don't have them). Once I gave up on expecting people to learn about computers, computing became much easier. Phones, tablets, and so on, for the masses, the desktop for me. And now I didn't have to go fix peoples screwed up computers - they don't have them anymore.
The importance of a domain name, much less a sub-domain, is now irrelevant. A search result, of of the first few, is what matters. You will never get users to understand a URL.
At one time the internet might have been for us hackers, but that time has passed. It's now the domain of the masses.