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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by darkarmani on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:17AM (#20574597)
But now you cannot distinguish between the 2 URLs. They look the same in the URL field but one is broken.
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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:38AM (#20575280)
The website host can absolutely distinguish between the two (two clicks on title bar). I guess this change has another upside of forcing website hosts to have working web server configurations
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