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As nice as an HSTS preload list is, using .app and .dev for this is infuriating.

Thanks for wasting about 6 hours of my time a few months ago by forcing me to change all my non-https local DNS entries to something other than .app and .dev, and then dealing with various flow on repercussions.

Really helpful that was. Especially the latter. How many decades of man hours are you wasting from this I wonder...

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I've been told by a few people that it's my own fault, that I should have used something else like .test, etc.

I wasn't even aware of the fact that .dev was going into the preload list and was quite surprised when my browser started erroring out on my dev sites. Had to spend time figuring out what was even happening, then I had to reconfigure my web server and DNS resolution.

Was I wrong to use .dev? Debatable. Pretty rude way to find out, though.

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