“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 AJ007 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:35AM (#20573885)

Except that Google has to pay Apple $12 billion a year to remain their default search engine, a price that has increased every year.

What chrome did by training users to enter their searches in the address bar (via the default tab’s fake google search box which moves the cursor to the URL field) was stupid, expensive, and probably undermines Google’s ability to be a destination web site in the long term.

At this point, the overwhelming number of devices are not Google’s. There is no reason to think that in the future they will be. After this anti trust stuff their influence over android may be even less than it is now.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by delfinom on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @09:20AM (#20574189)

>After this anti trust stuff their influence over android may be even less than it is now.

Sadly then Android will probably falter. As much as things are a shitshow, the unified app ecosystem is a big deal to allow competition for smartphones themselves which allows users to switch without getting burnt on app costs. Otherwise corporations are all about vendor lockin and fucking over the consumer for short term gain because greed is king these days.

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