@GoogleChromeDev have updated the ticket on hiding "www" in the address bar, and not unsurprisingly, it's gone down like a bucket of cold sick - #c114' target=_blank rel='nofollow noopener'>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038#c114 - if you want to avoid it, you're a "power user" and should use Google's new safebrowsing extension