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		nsuser3 on June 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs... Real example of why this is a bad idea: www.cs.usfca.edu is not cs.usfca.edu. The latter doesn't even have a DNS entry set up.. A screenshot of the browser will not show the www, making it more difficult to find the website.

shadowgovt on June 14, 2020 [–]

How, in the 21st century, has USFCA not gotten the memo to redirect HTTP requests to a root domain to a default subdomain instead of black-holing them?

At this point, That's just sloppiness on USFCA's part.

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