<story><title>Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome</title><url>https://www.pulltech.net/article/1566007822-Google-plans-to-deprecate-FTP-URL-support-in-Chrome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>I just hope this isn&amp;#x27;t like how Google basically killed off RSS when they killed off the best client that everyone was using (which I&amp;#x27;ve still never heard a good reason why) which I believe played a role in the decline of everyone having a blog.&lt;p&gt;And yes I know there&amp;#x27;s some niche support still, just as FTP will live on.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>There was a time when www was just a part of the Internet and we had www search and ftp search engines. The one I used to use was called &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;ftpsearch&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; and the only thing (besides the name) I remember is that it used to say &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This server is located in Trondheim&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; on the front page. A quick web search turns out that it still seems to exist in some form [1]. Unfortunately it apparently doesn&amp;#x27;t really work anymore.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s time to bring ftp search engines back.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mi.uni-koeln.de&amp;#x2F;~jbe&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;ftpsearch&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mi.uni-koeln.de&amp;#x2F;~jbe&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;ftpsearch&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Considering that Google (search) still lists plenty of FTP results, many of which have been &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; useful to me, this seems like another move to bully the Internet into what Google wants it to be. Will it start removing those results, effectively censoring another huge chunk of the Internet? It&amp;#x27;s already hard enough to find older&amp;#x2F;more obscure information, and FTP sites are more likely to be in that category.&lt;p&gt;Also, I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one who&amp;#x27;s absolutely sick of hearing that bloody &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; argument again. Yes, everyone knows FTP is plaintext, and so is HTTP. But drivers, which I&amp;#x27;d say are a significant part of FTP use, are almost always themselves signed anyway, and I don&amp;#x27;t think malware is widely distributed via FTP either (I&amp;#x27;m curious why FTPS&amp;#x2F;SFTP doesn&amp;#x27;t see to be indexed, or why they didn&amp;#x27;t decide to add that to the browser instead --- or at least I&amp;#x27;ve never come across a search result that links to one.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kye</author><text>RSS is still alive and well. Podcasting depends on it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome</title><url>https://www.pulltech.net/article/1566007822-Google-plans-to-deprecate-FTP-URL-support-in-Chrome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>I just hope this isn&amp;#x27;t like how Google basically killed off RSS when they killed off the best client that everyone was using (which I&amp;#x27;ve still never heard a good reason why) which I believe played a role in the decline of everyone having a blog.&lt;p&gt;And yes I know there&amp;#x27;s some niche support still, just as FTP will live on.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>There was a time when www was just a part of the Internet and we had www search and ftp search engines. The one I used to use was called &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;ftpsearch&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; and the only thing (besides the name) I remember is that it used to say &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;This server is located in Trondheim&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; on the front page. A quick web search turns out that it still seems to exist in some form [1]. Unfortunately it apparently doesn&amp;#x27;t really work anymore.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s time to bring ftp search engines back.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mi.uni-koeln.de&amp;#x2F;~jbe&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;ftpsearch&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mi.uni-koeln.de&amp;#x2F;~jbe&amp;#x2F;ref&amp;#x2F;ftpsearch&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Considering that Google (search) still lists plenty of FTP results, many of which have been &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; useful to me, this seems like another move to bully the Internet into what Google wants it to be. Will it start removing those results, effectively censoring another huge chunk of the Internet? It&amp;#x27;s already hard enough to find older&amp;#x2F;more obscure information, and FTP sites are more likely to be in that category.&lt;p&gt;Also, I can&amp;#x27;t be the only one who&amp;#x27;s absolutely sick of hearing that bloody &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; argument again. Yes, everyone knows FTP is plaintext, and so is HTTP. But drivers, which I&amp;#x27;d say are a significant part of FTP use, are almost always themselves signed anyway, and I don&amp;#x27;t think malware is widely distributed via FTP either (I&amp;#x27;m curious why FTPS&amp;#x2F;SFTP doesn&amp;#x27;t see to be indexed, or why they didn&amp;#x27;t decide to add that to the browser instead --- or at least I&amp;#x27;ve never come across a search result that links to one.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt;I believe played a role in the decline of everyone having a blog.&lt;p&gt;Is that really the case though? Wordpress ( Love it or Hate it ), both .com and self hosted is still thriving.&lt;p&gt;And if people are writing less blog, I think it has more to do with Social Media  ( Facebook ) than RSS or Google Search &amp;#x2F; Reader.</text></comment>