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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 beh
by crispyporkbites 8y ago
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.
- lvs 8y agoI 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.
- _pmf_ 8y ago> 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.
- kmlx 8y agoisn'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.
- sherman_google 8y ago> 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.
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- normo12 8y agoHopefully we'll see some antitrust action from the EU over this if they do drop the URL bar.