Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by _o-O-o_ on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:24PM (#20627956)

What a slippery slope. I imagine a future when the entire URL itself has disappeared and we live in some sort of Google-controlled walled garden environment, like what they're trying to do with AMP[0]. Some sites only work with WWW prefixed as the APEX DNS record is misconfigured and points to nothing. I've even seen some sites point to `0.0.0.0' but had a CNAME record for WWW and I could then view the site.

[0] https://developers.google.com/amp/

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by y_molodtsov on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:40PM (#20628139)

Then these websites are broken and needs to be fixed. In the end, the most of the people would probably search for it in the first place.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by horsawlarway on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:20PM (#20628559)

broken according to who, exactly?

It's entirely reasonable to choose to host http/https traffic on a www subdomain and host entirely different services at the non-www domain.

The internet is not just http traffic. Full fucking stop.

There are plenty of systems and industries where the actual web front-end is an after-thought.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by aaomidi on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:13PM (#20628492)

This is a stupid argument. Subdomains are part of the standard of the web. They shouldn't be hidden.

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