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It breaks how the web is supposed to function. There is no consensus on the utilization of subdomains and which ones are considered to be trivial. I could write an app which maps usernames to subdomains and Chrome would break this if a user had a username which was in the trivial list. I think Tumblr is a site which does this. It really isn't about technical or non-technical, it is about what subdomains can be used f…
There's no such thing as "how the web is supposed to function." There is an ideal that the plurality of the early web once sought to chase. There are more ideals that the more commerce-friendly users and creators of the web started to chase. The norm is always shifting. It's our job as technologists to accommodate how people want to use technology, not to tell them that the way they want to use it is wrong. Because i…
What are those?
> It's our job as technologists to accommodate how people want to use technology, not to tell them that the way they want to use it is wrong.
If some kids wish to use the technology to do DDos attacks it doesn't mean we should build it into the browser, the same is true here.
> Because if we try to tell them no,
Just say No to this crap, that's all.