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I work for well-known tech company [redacted] and visiting our website with the www omitted does not work from within our network. But if you've just updated Chrome, it would now be unclear whether you typed the site name right.

My previous employer [redacted] had its marketing site on www and actual SaaS application product on www-less. Again a case where mis-typing would be made more confusing by Chrome.

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Those both seem like implementation issues.

They're not good practice on the part of the website operators, for sure, but they are real examples of the root and www domains being different. In my experience there are also lots of old or government sites that just plain don't work without the www.

And when the person phones up tech support “ma'am, does it show the www. in front of the website?” “no” “sorry you need to retype” “it still doesn't show www.” is going to happen.

Or someone will write down the URL from the screen, and when someone else types it in, it won't work.

Oh, right, and there's the same issue with sites where https:// has a different site to http://!

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