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Prepare for:

1) Much more complicated URL recognition regexp

2) Much more big Ablock Plus filter lists

3) ftnn2lhnosm.youtube

4) www.apple

I'm joking. I really don't like the new gTLD thing.

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>3) ftnn2lhnosm.youtube

At least I'll be able to blacklist dQw4w9WgXcQ.youtube in my /etc/hosts and be able to blindly click links again.

They are pretty much killing the idea of using regexes to linkify URLs without the scheme in plain text. Given that Chrome has moved to dropping the `http://` from its address bar, and many people already skip it, they are probably going to break a lot of linkification code in comment forms and the like. Sure, people "should" know to type the `http://`, but many people just don't know about that or don't remember, and there's a lot of encouragement not to.

>Given that Chrome has moved to dropping the `http://` from its address bar

Uh, if you try to copy it, Chrome prepends the http://. It's only a visual effect, it still pastes full links.

Yes, but lots of people simply type links rather than copy-pasting. If you don't see the `http://`, you are less likely to remember to type it.

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