szabesz Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 https://www.i-programmer.info/news/86-browsers/12119-google-wants-to-kill-the-url-and-makes-a-start-with-chrome-69.html "... in the latest Chrome 69 the http:// and the https:// have been removed from the start of the URL as have other irrelevancies such as www., m. and other things that they haven't bothered to list. This is a mistake, as changing URLs is what scammers do and Google has now disconnected what you type in from what it shows. In addition, the scope for getting it wrong is quite high. ?What if a site shows different content on www.example.com and example.com? What if it has www in the middle of a longer URL? ...." Good article, I recommend reading it completely. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongondo Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Interesting read, thanks. Related discussion on hacker news. See the bit about: Quote Most comments assume that this is for solving user confusion, or security, or building a better URL scheme, et al. It's not, that is all smokescreen. As ivs wrote[1] They are going to hide amp subdomain, so you don't know if you're looking at AMP or the actual destination. And then suddenly the whole world funnels through AMP. And for that reason, it won't be reversed until people call them for what they are actually trying to do. OT: Yesterday, for whatever reason, YouTube was really slow on a device I was using so I tried Edge. OMG, it's true, Edge is way faster than Chrome! :-). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szabesz Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 Great discussion, thanks for the link! 4 hours ago, kongondo said: Related discussion on hacker news. See the bit about: Another comment: Quote The reason why Google is doing this is because they are slowly trying to do away with URLs, as direct traffic is probably their greatest untapped segment. Google is trying to get users to go through their doorway pages, which is exactly the kind of thing for which they penalize publishers. Pay attention to when you enter direct addresses, let's say from a device/media subscription authorization page. The autosuggestion feature will often recommend Google searches, disguised as URLs, instead of helping you complete the very obvious URL. If they help you get to the site directly, the opportunity to acquire your page views diminishes. These behaviors are hostile toward users. I'd like to see further in their playbook to depreciate the URL as we know it. Google is certainly trying to do something immoral... maybe it is high time for me to switch to Firefox as my main browser? I manually update Chrome so I am still on v67 but in the light of this, it is highly probable I will not update to a version playing dirty tricks with the domain name system. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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