Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first started?
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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#12Also a great way to share cookies, avoid CORS, and probably a zillion other complexities that result from running on multiple subdomains.
And to increase XSS blast radius!
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#13recently gmail.com became unreachable and was moved to mail.google.com dont know if its related
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#14Also a great way to share cookies, avoid CORS, and probably a zillion other complexities that result from running on multiple subdomains.
Yeah, but do you want to bet that during the management call and the subsequent engineering call that made this decision, the main topic of discussion was the direct financial benefit from improved tracking? We'll never know, but if we could find out, say 1 year from now, I'd bet 100:1 that was the main driver.
Wow...i didn't for even a second think it was anything other than a way to get a financial benefit. Kudos to you for not be as cynical as me.
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#15I am having a hard time figuring out how this would be affected by GDPR.
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#16This is not new. I'm pretty sure Google has done that kind of redirection for ages for me.
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#17huh? You were always able to share sub-domain cookies with top-level domain cookies no? Set-Cookie: name=value; domain=google.com
Setting cookies doesn't allow using Browser APIs lie GEO-Location
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#18It's a very strange move indeed. maps.google.com implies an application lives there, far better than being on the root domain. It also means that when you start typing maps.google, you'd get all your history searchable related to maps, although arguably that's useless. I can't think of a reason why this would be a good technical move for Google (ignoring the don't do evil thingie), other than simplifying... certifica…
Other things: slightly simpler external DNS surface, probably tiny speed improvements because users only need to have the IP of www.google.com, not one for maps, one for www, one for whateverelse.
More possibility for connection re-use, as you'd only need to have a connection open for www.google.com, not one for each service.
And security wise: ISPs can now only see that you're accessing something at google, but not which service exactly. If they also bring in accounts.google.com into the fold, that would make it harder to see whether you have an account or not.
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#19Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first started?
I’ve been seeing this redirect to google.com/maps for at least a year now because my default has always been to type maps.google.com and I find it weird every time it redirects.
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#20I think this change probably has more to do with corporate firewalls than anything else. A lot of corporate internet access isn't set up to MITM the requests (a lot of places are setup for this, but a lot aren't). If they places all their services under google.com as suffixes, places that don't MITM won't have any way of stopping it as all they can see is the request to google.com.