maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#2I wonder if this is why the mega-app model is so common for Chinese companies. It's far easier to justify collecting a million permissions when your app does a million things.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#3Also a great way to share cookies, avoid CORS, and probably a zillion other complexities that result from running on multiple subdomains.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#4Also 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.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#5This is also so they can invade your privacy, and correlate all of your searches to your geolocation.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#6 Privacy and intimacy,
As we know it,
Will be a memory,
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew.
Living in the pupil of one thousand eyes.Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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#8It'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... certificates? Less lines in the firewall config... I'm stretching here, help me understand.
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#9huh? You were always able to share sub-domain cookies with top-level domain cookies no?
Set-Cookie: name=value; domain=google.com
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#10I'm wondering how much time browsers will take to implement URL match permission granting.