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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:59AM (#20574032)
To be fair URLs look gibberish for most of the world because pretty much no browsers do IRIs and a lot of services are actively hostile to IRIs and IDNs, it is a step up in usability for most of the world to see "just words you type" instead of most URLs.
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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by notahacker on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:29AM (#20574673)
It's a step up in usability for everyone, including native English speakers who know what https means but can't remember the precise url, but a step down in security from type magic incantation correctly
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