> It's hiding though, not conflating, it isn't violating any standard. By doing what? > Not to mention, how is a protocol irrelevant but a "www." subdomain is

> It's hiding though, not conflating, it isn't violating any standard. By doing what? > Not to mention, how is a protocol irrelevant but a "www." subdomain isn't? Because the "www." hostname is part of the identity, the protocol is not (if we are talking about HTTP/1.x vs. HTTP/2 or QUIC--HTTP vs. HTTPS is part of the identity, of course). > Both are equally useless for most users when browsing. That's irrelevant. It still is part of the identity of the document.