Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
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Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
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Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#2I use Firefox anyway and I would be fine with hiding the https:// and the green lock shows its https anyway but I do not get the subdomain hiding, not on desktops, tablets, phones with enough screen space anyway. If its really limited then maybe with some symbol that indicates that there is something missing there.
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#3This is extremely annoying for a project I'm working on that involves subdomains. If I set nginx to redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` I want to verify it in the browser.
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#4I absolutely do not want it to hide any URI schemes or subdomains at all. (I am able to change these settings in Firefox, at least. I could also disable Unicode rendering for the domain name, but to disable Unicode rendering for the filename I had to write an extension.)
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#5Google must really hate URLs. My search results recently stopped showing the full path of the URL, just the domain name. It was a huge pain because I was looking for an item at Ikea and couldn't tell if a result went to their American site or to their UK, Saudi Arabian, Qatari, etc. site (apparently the same item can have small differences in different countries— I almost bought the wrong lightbulbs because the UK version of my lamp uses a different size bulb).
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#6URLs represent and identify content,controling them means you control content. In the short term these changes mean little but in the long term this will benefit google immensely. Google just loves slippery slopes.
Identity and payment are extremely important to any ordered system of social interaction. More than content itself,controlling them helps one control everything else.
I am trying hard to avoid believing conspiracy theoris about Google.
Maybe a legal requirement for intetnet standards compliance makes sense?
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#7Off topic : there seems to be a disconnect between the chrome devs and users. Another instance was the automatic signing in to chrome incident. I've lost trust in the chrome team and have switched to Firefox full time and honestly there's nothing that I miss. The firefox devs seem to better understand their users, frequently blog about changes that positively impact users. I have a lot more faith in firefox even though it's not perfect (mr. robot incident and others).
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#8I'm certainly not a fan of the new URI scheme, but it is worth pointing out that Safari has already made the same change. Furthermore I'm not convinced said change is a net-negative for the average consumer.
Safari added the setting "Show full website address", which does just that. I wouldn't have a problem if Chrome followed suit and defaulted to the new scheme, but gave us the option to show the full URI.
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#9This is extremely annoying for a project I'm working on that involves subdomains. If I set nginx to redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` I want to verify it in the browser.
my chrome hasn't updated yet, but my understanding of this change was that you could display the full unmolested URL by simply clicking in the address bar. is that not the case?
Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again
#10Google wants nobody to know URLs exist, and that everyone is forced to search Google for everything, even sites they know, and there visit fake AMP-sites portraying to be from a server they are not, all while Google tracks every single keystroke you make.
This is just another tiny step in that overall plan, and it is 100% evil.
Don’t waste your time trying to talk the Chrome-team into reason. You are not their customer, nor their employer. They will not listen.
If you don’t like what Google is doing, use other products. Firefox, DDG, iPhones etc.