Looks like there are some unexpected knock-on effects from changes to how Chrome 69 handles URLs: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/i

Aside from opening up impersonation attacks that didn’t exist before, it’s buggy too! www.example.www.example.com/ is displayed as example.example.com, which is… not accurate.

@revenant @oolongstains my favorite thing is that www dot com is an actual real website (albeit just a squatter, from the looks of it) so, welp. well done goog.

@Xkeeper @revenant Haha, yeah, I always loved www.com. That one appears to display correctly under Chrome 69, I’d have expected them to get that one wrong.

@oolongstains @revenant i'd set up a hosts file to do something like "www.google.www.com", but that would require me to have chrome 69

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