Looks like this is intentional. To change it back go to chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains and disable the setting.
Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
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Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#12Yo, this is... going too far, c'mon now.
While sure, www seems odd now, it's still a subdomain and we're inching into territory of obscuring things that matter for small gains in end-user perception that aren't _that_ impactful.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#13Anyone know if this checks for a DNS record that supports equivalency between the www/empty subdomains? It's possible for them to have different values.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#14...I'm okay with this, I think. Has www (http over tcp/ip) not become the default protocol for "the internet" in the average person's mind?
www is a sub domain and orthogonal to protocol. Eg ftp://www.yo.com should be valid as well.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#15...I'm okay with this, I think. Has www (http over tcp/ip) not become the default protocol for "the internet" in the average person's mind?
And many including myself are not OK with this. Your browser shouldn't be obscuring any part of the URI.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#16Have any of you with corporate-type proxies been seeing authentication issues? Since moving to Chrome 69 a number of our users are reporting repeated proxy auth prompts when this should normally be handled transparently by Kerberos.
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Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#18...I'm okay with this, I think. Has www (http over tcp/ip) not become the default protocol for "the internet" in the average person's mind?
I think websites should just stop using "www." entirely and host directly on their domain rather than a subdomain.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#19Is this really a big deal? Don't many websites either redirect the www to the non-www, or the other way around?
It's about the principle. www is a valid subdomain.
Browsers are supposed to be as unopinionated as possible since they are browsers, not mediators, and their job is to implement the standards of the web.
Re: Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
#20Is this really a big deal? Don't many websites either redirect the www to the non-www, or the other way around?
My site, although one can argue it is a poorly configured (although it is intentionally configured this way), is a great example of why this is problematic.
https://www.aishitei.ru vs https://aishitei.ru vs https://kimiwo.aishitei.ru
I never set up a www cname, but now unless you're paying attention (or actually reading error messages) you might not notice that the reason it failed is because you're not at the domain but on the `www` subdomain. The URL bar doesn't convey this information until you click it and then it shows the full URL.
It's really minor but I also don't see a good reason to do this. All the sites hosted by the company I work for are hosted on `www.` with the intention that it "looks more professional".