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I stumbled upon this bug too, and here's why this is not okay to me:

For a couple of hours, I thought Citibank Singapore's website was down.

If one tries accessing citibank.com.sg, there's no redirect to the www. subdomain. (That's still the case, if anyone wants to try.)

If Chrome didn't hide the www., I would have been able to tell from Chrome's search/address bar that the various banking services that I've been accessing were all on the www. subdomain.

While that is shoddy implementation on Citibank's part, hiding the www. most definitely didn't help with the troubleshooting process.

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It's not a shoddy implementation on Citibank's part. Google are just fucking the web over so we all have to fit their structure.

This is standard incumbent behaviour, they are drawing up the moat bridge, inch by inch.

I think the downvotes here are uncalled-for. This is correct. Google is leveraging a dominant market position to make seemingly frivolous changes that will ultimately benefit them commercially.

Come on, you know where this is going: 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.

> Come on, you know where this is going: 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.

That's probably the reason for this utterly bizarre change.

isn't it because urls are Number 1 for phishing thou? wouldn't removing urls altogether and move towards full identity checks be better for the web? and relying on citibank singapore to hire the right people to fix their website... never going to happen.

> wouldn't removing urls altogether and move towards full identity checks be better for the web?

Hey we'd be open to it, but we'd really prefer to have an RFC to read...

Instead, we got a quiet auto-update, without patch notes.

Good bye, open web. It was fun while it lasted.

Hopefully we'll see some antitrust action from the EU over this if they do drop the URL bar.

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