“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by cm2187 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:27AM (#20573829)

But what you are describing is a tiny insignificant minority of very technical users from the 90s, amongst a population who didn't understand it at all (cf all the 1990s movies where the actor turns off the monitor instead of the computer!).

What I am trying to point at is the vast number of users born after 1990 that have a decent basic understanding of these technologies. And within that generation, the portion that has a similar deep understanding to 1990s users is a population which by absolute size is several orders of magnitude larger what it was in the 1990s. And it is going to keep increasing.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by jolmg on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:08AM (#20574984)

You said:

> the proportion of technically litterate users will go up over time not down.

I take the proportion to mean "out of all internet/computer users". That has gone down. And that's the proportion that I think matters as it's what dictates the direction internet/computer technologies go. The proportion is going down, precisely because more people are using these technologies and the majority are not willing to learn as much.

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